abstract arsenic (as) contamination of soils is a global problem. legumes are often used in remediation of contaminated sites because of their capacity to fix nitrogen. in the present study, the effects of inoculation of bean (by rhizobium leguminosarum bv. phaseoli) on plant uptake and tolerance to arsenic were investigated. an experiment with a factorial arrangement, two levels of inoculation...

controlled environment may be adopted for a rapid multiplication of a large number of potato seed tubers. the controlled environment prevents seed tuber degeneration which may occur under field conditions. the objective of this study was to introduce new mini-tuber production system with high multiplication rate and low production cost. to evaluate the performance of culture systems in terms of...

A detailed description is presented in this paper of small sand and water culture equipment. A number of large out-of-doors sand cultures both for tree and annual crops have also been constructed at the U. S. Regional Salinity Laboratory, Riverside, California. In their general features these latter cultures are like those described in an earlier publication (3). The more significant modificati...

present study examines whether there is any beneficial effect of magnetized water application on seedling emergence of maize seeds. water from various sources like tap water, saline water (1,500 ppm), canal water, and sewerage water was treated magnetically by passing it through 235 mt magnetic fields at 3 lpm flow rate. seeds were soaked in water for 24 hours and planted in sand culture. numbe...

BACKGROUND Beach sand can harbor fecal indicator organisms and pathogens, but enteric illness risk associated with sand contact remains unclear. METHODS In 2007, visitors at 2 recreational marine beaches were asked on the day of their visit about sand contact. Ten to 12 days later, participants answered questions about health symptoms since the visit. F+ coliphage, Enterococcus, Bacteroidales...

The two well known techniques which are used in plant-nutrition studies are conveniently designated the solution-culture method and the sand-culture method. Some other slightly soluble materials, such as cinders, gravel, vermiculite, and Sponge Rok or various combinations of these may be substituted for sand. The use of slightly soluble material as a medium, to which the nutrient solution is pr...

The co-culture of juvenile sea cucumber Holothuria scabra (Jaeger), or 'sandfish', with juvenile blue shrimp Litopenaeus stylirostris (Stimpson) was tested by growing groups in co-culture and monoculture for 3 weeks in tanks with enriched sand substratum. Feed was supplied on trays, accessible only to shrimp. Survival of shrimp and sandfish was high in all treatments (73–100%). Growth of shrimp...

novement of the end of the bar (e) and assures a quick and positive movement of the valve when the vessel (d) moves from the "down" to the "up" position. A suitable counter weight is suspended from the bar (e). As indicated in the diagram, when the vessel (d) is in the "up" position air pressure from the compressed air main forces the culture solution up into the sand containers. As the solutio...

Low pollutant substrate bioavailability limits hydrocarbon biodegradation in soils. Bacterially produced surface-active compounds, such as rhamnolipid biosurfactant and the PA bioemulsifying protein produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, can improve bioavailability and biodegradation in liquid culture, but their production and roles in soils are unknown. In this study, we asked if the genes for su...