Lipolytic bacteria were isolated from oil contaminated soils and grown on tributyrin media containing 1% (w/v) olive oil. The isolate showing maximum activity was identified by following Berger’s manual. Different media parameters were optimized for maximal enzyme production. Peak lipase activity was observed for palm oil as carbon source, peptone as nitrogen source, at pH 7.0 and temperature a...

Olive groves are Mediterranean systems that occupy more than 2.5 M ha in Spain and 0.352 Portugal. Assuming the differences between both countries terms of olive grove regulation considering their multifunctionality, it is useful to implement agronomic indices estimate sustainability. The Soil Loss Tolerance Index (SLTI) Productivity (SPI) two such indices. We calculated Protected Designation O...

Precision agriculture is a management strategy to improve resource efficiency, production, quality, profitability and sustainability of the crops. In recent years, olive tree increasingly focused on determining correct health status plants in order distribute main using different technologies. grove, focus often use multispectral information from UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), but it not known...

Despite a recent shift towards sustainable practices to support the conservation of traditional olive groves, little is known about their potential threats herpetofauna species. On island Lesvos, one main olive-growing islands in Mediterranean, cultivation often prioritizes expeditious harvesting olives with minimal or no supplementary intervention, resulting generally suboptimal management, co...

BACKGROUND In the last years, many olive plantations in southern Spain have been mediated by the use of self-rooted planting stocks, which have incorporated commercial AMF during the nursery period to facilitate their establishment. However, this was practised without enough knowledge on the effect of cropping practices and environment on the biodiversity of AMF in olive orchards in Spain. ME...

The olive tree is perfectly adapted to the Mediterranean region, where it represents high economic, social, and landscape importance, orchards being an important repository of biodiversity. order Coleoptera encompasses families that provide ecosystem services, such as pest limitation. objective this work was compare assemblage Beetles between grove their surrounding semi-natural in Trás-os-Mont...

The microbial ecology of the nitrogen cycle in agricultural soils is an issue of major interest. We hypothesized a major effect by farm management systems (mineral versus organic fertilizers) and a minor influence of soil texture and plant variety on the composition and abundance of microbial nitrifiers. We explored changes in composition (16S rRNA gene) of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA), bact...

BACKGROUND Olive pomace, as the main by-product of the olive oil industry, is recently recycled as fermentation substrate for enzyme production. OBJECTIVES Actinobacteria isolates were separated from an Algerian soil under olive pomace cultivation and were evaluated for their lignocellulolytic enzymes production. MATERIALS AND METHODS Isolates of Actinobacteria were separated from soils aro...