a greenhouse experiment was conducted using completely randomised design (factorial) with three replications to study the residual effect of organic manures (municipal solid waste compost and cow manure), zinc (0 and 50 kgha-1) and boron (0 and 10 kg.ha-1) by using znso4 and h3bo3 salts respectively, (applied earlier for millet (panicum italicum l.) crop) on soil properties and chemical composi...

in this paper, labo3 perovskite type catalyst formulations were prepared by sol-gel auto combustion method using citric acid as the fuel. activity of catalysts was tested in catalytic oxidation of toluene as a model of volatile organic compounds. lacoo3 perovskite formulation showed the highest activity among labo3 (fe, mn and co) perovskite catalysts. so, lacoo3 perovskite based catalyst was s...

Nicotianamine aminotransferase (NAAT), the key enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of mugineic acid family phytosiderophores (MAs), catalyzes the amino transfer of nicotianamine (NA). MAs are found only in graminaceous plants, although NA has been detected in every plant so far investigated. Therefore, this amino transfer reaction is the first step in the unique biosynthesis of MAs that has evo...

We evaluated the inducibility of nitrate-dependent Fe(II)-EDTA oxidation (NDFO) in non-growth, chloramphenicol-amended, resting-cell suspensions of Dechloromonas sp. strain UWNR4 and Acidovorax sp. strain 2AN. Cells previously incubated with Fe(II)-EDTA oxidized ca. 6-fold more Fe(II)-EDTA than cells previously incubated with Fe(III)-EDTA. This is the first report of induction of NDFO by Fe(II).

Magnetic domain structures in Fe73:5Si13:5B9Nb3Cu1 alloys annealed at different temperatures have been observed in situ under external magnetic fields by electron holography. Under a weak magnetic field of less than several A/m, a typical magnetization process of the high permeability material is observed in the specimen annealed at 823K consisting of the bcc Fe–Si nanocrystalline and the amorp...

The mechanisms of the few known molecular nitrogen-fixing systems, including nitrogenase enzymes, are of much interest but are not fully understood. We recently reported that Fe-N2 complexes of tetradentate P3(E) ligands (E = B, C) generate catalytic yields of NH3 under an atmosphere of N2 with acid and reductant at low temperatures. Here we show that these Fe catalysts are unexpectedly robust ...

This paper reports steady-state dissolution rates of synthetic low-substitution Al-goethites (mol % Al < 10) at pH 5 in the presence of the trihydroxamate siderophore, desferrioxamine B (DFO-B), and the common biological ligand, oxalate. The siderophore-promoted Fe release rate increased both with the level of Al substitution and with DFO-B concentration up to about 100 microM, after which a pl...