The risk of global water crisis is becoming more evident due to the increase in overall urban population and reduction freshwater availability. Treated greywater using greenwall technology was identified as a potential method produce for non-potable applications. filtering media acts growing plants filtration medium. In this study, pollutant removal efficiency environmental impacts associated w...

The effects of four commercial substrates, a peat-based substrate, and three coir types (coir pith, chips, pith + fibers) on yield, phytochemical accumulation, antioxidant activity were evaluated in Spinacia oleracea L. cv. ‘Manatee’. Soil-blocked spinach seedlings transplanted into Styrofoam planting boxes filled with the substrate. Each box was irrigated daily by drip complete nutrient soluti...

Malang Regency produced 690,136 tons banana in 2016. The production is line with the waste (banana stalks). Banana stalks contain 83.3% cellulose and 2.97% lignin, of which can be used as raw material for paperboard making. However, leaf paper has a low tensile strength 7.45 N/mm2, so additional fibers to strengthen necessary, such coconut coir 46.67 N/mm2. This research aimed formulate making,...

an efficient and cost effective protocol for in vitro propagation of pineapple (ananas comosus var. queen) has been developed. in the proliferation stage, agar based murashige and skoog (ms) media was supplemented with 3.0 mg/l benzyleaminopurine (bap), 0.5 mg/l indole acetic acid (iaa) and 50 mg/l adenine sulphate as rbc design experiment. two approaches were taken to reduce the chemical cost ...

This research was supported by the National Institute of Forestry, Livestock and Agricultural Research (INIFAP); the Council of Science and Technology of the State of Guanajuato (CONCYTEG); and the Protected Agriculture Project, University of Florida/IFAS. *Corresponding author; email: [email protected]; phone: (352) 392-1928, ext. 203 Yield and Quality of Greenhouse-grown Strawberries as Affected...

Lowering costs for software maintenance, development and reuse is a great challenge. Strategies like the 3 schema architecture for databases has shown to lower maintenance and development costs of databases. For a similar purpose an architecture has been developed over the last 10 years for object-oriented systems. This architecture is now named the COIR architecture and has helped in lowering ...

The purpose of this study was to develop substrates with little or no peat by combining coir-based growing media municipal compost and/or acacia biochar, two locally produced renewable resources, and assess their effects on lettuce seedling emergence growth, as well content in photosynthetic pigments total phenols. Two experiments were carried out, the first six mixes using biochar blended perl...

This research work developed and evaluated the mechanical properties of coconut fibre reinforced low density polyethylene (LPDE) composite material. The effect loading on properties: tensile, flexural, impact material have been investigated. Also carried out was water absorptivity Sample categories were prepared by varying contents weight at 0%, 10%, 20%, 30%. aim is to reduce excessive waste d...

The cellulase producing bacteria was isolated from cow dung and characterized by morphological and biochemical analysis. Further partial purification of cellulase was carried out by dialysis and ammonium phosphate precipitation and also to determine molecular weight by SDS-PAGE. Bacterial isolated were grown on Carboxy Methyl Cellulose (CMC) agar at various optimum conditions such as parameters...