What is the best method for soil sterilization?

I wanna know the proper temperature, humidity and duration of soil sterilization, and also possible chemicals applicable for soil sterilization. looking forward to hear from you colleagues.

11 December 2017 5,735 4 View

Dear colleagues, how can I get rid of formalin smell, that I've used for lab disinfection?

in fact, I have used formalin & KMnO4 for disinfecting a tissue culture lab & growth room, but the smell have not removed after 4 days, how can I get ride of it? any practical method to...

11 December 2017 842 10 View

Is any one here familiar with application of Artificial Neural Network in plant science?

08 September 2017 219 4 View

How to find out the relative humidity of CuSO4.5H2O and KOH salts in a range of temperature between 5C to 50C?

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02 March 2017 8,161 4 View

If the RH and seed moisture content being provided, is it possible to calculate seed water potential?

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31 December 2016 5,619 9 View

Is it possible to generalize a hydrotermal model that obtained for a seed , to other seeds?

11 December 2016 9,720 1 View

Is it possible for mycorrhizal fungi to growth in callus tissue, which originated from root zone?

09 October 2016 5,754 9 View

How to measure intercellular pH of plant cells?

06 July 2016 6,355 8 View

Whats the relation of cell wall synthesis to cell division?

06 July 2016 4,336 0 View

Chlorinated organic formation in odor control scrubbers using hypochlorite?

I'm involved in a study of odor control technologies for municipal wastewater treatment plant. One of the control options involves a chemical 2-stage (acid/alkaline) packed bed scrubber. The...

03 March 2021 3,661 2 View

What solvent can I used for Paal Knorr reaction between 6-amino hexanoic acid and 2.5 hexanedione?

I am try to make the Paal Knorr reaction between 2.5 hexnedione and 6-amino hexanoic acid, my problem is type of solvent to use, because 6-hexaminohexanoic acid is soluble in water but I am not...

02 March 2021 4,443 2 View

Ester cleavage conditions?

Hi all, I need to cleave the ester in Ethyl 2-amino-1H-imidazole-5-carboxylate to make the carboxylic acid and retrieve the product from solution to use in downstream applications of linking to...

01 March 2021 8,766 3 View

How to remove DCU and HOBT from my reaction?

I am doing a acid and a chiral amino alcohol reaction using DCC and HOBT in DCM or THF? Can anyone suggest me how to remove DCU and HOBT from a reaction mixture??

28 February 2021 2,153 1 View

What is the most common number of epitopes in an multi-epitope Vaccine?

hi everyone, I'm interested in the field of vaccine design specifically multi-epitope cancer vaccines , I want to know if there is a minimum and maximum number of epitopes we could use in a...

27 February 2021 3,882 3 View

How to increase solubility of Poly acrylic acid in Dioxane solvent?

I am working with Polyacrylic acid (100.000Da) and instead of water, I need to use another solvent (dioxane) to dissolve PAA. However, because of the high molecular weight, it's quite hard to...

25 February 2021 2,225 5 View

What is this fern?

Please help me to identify this fern species. Thank you in advance.

24 February 2021 2,435 5 View

Why is NH4OH added in heavy metals limit test?

The limit test I'm referring to is USP method II. In this procedure you need to dropwise add 6N of NH4OH to the sample until it the pH is alkali. After that you need to dilute and add HOAc until...

23 February 2021 2,049 3 View

Is it efficient to do liquid biopsy to investigate the gene expressions of the tumor?

To do liquid biopsy and look for specific gene expressions there are so many published papers. Thera are different protocols and procedures used to isolate circulating cell free RNA or mRNA from...

23 February 2021 7,326 5 View

Is this the write procedure for acid digestion of soil for heavy metal analysis using AAS?

How to do acid digestion of soil sample with 3:1 aquaregia in an open vessel?

23 February 2021 3,053 7 View