Vermicomposts have been shown to promote the germination, growth, and yields of plants. This paper aims to demonstrate the effects of vermicomposts produced from three types of wastes on growth and flowering of petunias which are an important U.S. flowering crop. Vermicomposts, produced commercially from cattle manure, food wastes and paper wastes, were substituted at a range of different conce...

introduction: the poultry industry has a crucial role in production of nutritious food for human consumption. good quality feeds and rational nutrition are essential preconditions for obtain high producing healthy animals and economic prosperity in a flock. antibiotics are worldwide used so far in animal husbandry to improve animal products, but nowadays the application of antibiotics as feed a...

We present and compare AMS-C geochronologies for sediment cores recovered from Lake Titicaca, South America. Radiocarbon dates from three core sites constrain the timing of late Quaternary paleoenvironmental changes in the Central Andes and highlight the site-specific factors that limit the radiocarbon geochronometer. With the exception of mid-Holocene sediments, all cores are generally devoid ...

Boone, 1994). Despite these efforts, no single fractionation method has been shown to cleanly distinguish Nitrogen mineralization in irrigated lowland rice (Oryza sativa L.) SOM fractions based on their contributions to soil N soils is poorly predicted by total soil C and N. To improve its prediction, two humic acid fractions were extracted with NaOH from lowland mineralization across a wide ra...

Natural organic fertilizers require microbial degradation for nitrogen (N) release, but their ability to promote rapid turfgrass establishment has not been well documented in newly constructed sand-based rootzones. This 2-year field study evaluated the influence of two general fertilizer and soil amendment programs for their effect on establishment and quality of three creeping bentgrass (Agros...

such effects, especially for chemically extracted SOM fractions. In this study, we explore the relationship beAlthough the chemical nature of soil organic matter (SOM) is tween the chemical nature of extracted HA fractions thought to affect the mineralization rate of N bound in SOM, little direct evidence exists for such effects. To test the hypothesis that the and their pattern of N mineraliza...

A total of 16 crossbred (Large White × Landrace) castrated male pigs averaging 30.0 ± 2.5 kg were used in two trials (2 × 8 pigs) to determine apparent nutrient digestibility. The control group received feed mixture consisting of wheat and barley. In the experimental group, 3% proportion of wheat was replaced by sodium humate. The results of nutrient digestibility showed significantly lower (P ...