What is the pattern of occurrence and presence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in the soil of continuous cropping system?

1): Under continuous cropping system, what is the status of AMF occurrence in soil especially from continuous vegetable cultivation system?. 2): Either we detect the AMF community and diversity...

05 June 2018 2,708 4 View

Difference between Bray-Curtis dissimilarity and Unifrac phylogenetic distance for visualizing microbial community differences?

Can someone explain this figure based on cluster analysis of different soil samples based on OTU abundance for each soil.what is the impact of genetic distance between different treatment samples?

04 May 2018 2,905 2 View

Best staining methods to ensure the effective AMF inoculation?

I am working on Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) with emphasizing on Cucumber productivity in the presence or co-inoculation with organic substrate, Could someone guide how to check the...

04 May 2018 8,787 9 View

High throughout microbial sequencing approaches; pyrosequencing, illumina can ensure the effectiveness of collected soil samples ?

By using these methods, DNA extraction, PCR amplification and bioinformatics assay are core steps to process the sequence analysis. After process the data, we have a abundant information regarding...

03 April 2018 4,480 10 View

What is the significance value of particular microbial diversity?

To explore the soil microbial diversity, usually we analyse the alpha and beta-diversity of microbes. what is the significance of both indicators, what these indices explicit the true microbial...

03 April 2018 1,518 0 View

The role of plant residues in pH change of acidic/alkaline or neutral soils ?

Plant residue having 7.25 pH added in soil, what will be the impact on soil acidity or alkalinity, Residue alkaline in nature could increase or decrease the soil status it term of pH and what...

11 December 2017 8,719 5 View

What will the impact of high TOC on soil quality? Does it effect CN ratio?

if plant residues have high TOC (412g/kg), after incorporating into soil, what will effect on soil quality? and does high TOC effect CN ratio? please explain it.

10 November 2017 5,648 8 View

If the plant residue amended in soil with high CN, How to control C:N ratio after applied in soil?

Pot soil amended with plant residue for short duration cucumber growth. if plant residue has high CN ratio (OC: 371g/kg, N:0.97 g/kg). So in that case how to control/balance or lower down the...

10 November 2017 1,411 6 View

Is there any approach to measure biochar as a soil quality indicator? Is it possible to measure the biochar contents as a parameter not as treatment?

In generally, we apply biochar as a treatment for soil amendment. Is it possible to take it as parameter (as soil quality indicator) not as treatment. need valuable guideline, any protocol?

10 November 2017 861 12 View

Can someone explain that determination of microbial population and diversity as influenced by applied plant residues, How much be affected?

I have applied plant residues (Raw Garlic stalk) with 3 different concentrations in cucumber continuous potted soil. i want to check its efficacy towards microbs addition or not? i want to...

01 January 1970 795 2 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

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 can we theoretically calculate Elemental analysis(percentage) of atoms in covalent organic framework?

For example in one research article the Elemental analysis values of COF-TpPa-1 ( Triformylphloroglucinol (Tp) (63 mg, 0.3 mmol), Paraphenylenediamine (Pa-1) (48 mg, 0.45 mmol) are as follows...

24 February 2021 1,265 6 View

How to Control Whiteflies in coconut leaves?

24 February 2021 1,005 1 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

Are there packages (R or Python) for simple models (bucket?) to assess soil water content?

Hi everyone. I am researching droguht effects on soil water drought. I am looking for already implemented functions in R or Python to estimate soil water content from precipitation,...

21 February 2021 2,084 1 View

Which type of loading is to be used in dynamic analysis of Machien foundation?

Hello Everyone, Hope you all are doing well. I'm trying to simulate a machine foundation in ABAQUS with a geo-cell reinforced soil bed. Im totally confused to which type of loading would be...

21 February 2021 4,388 3 View

What reaction will occur when adding hexamine into ammonium nitrate in an acidic medium?

Hello, I am investigating properties of water in oil emulsion explosives. And adding hexamine (hexamethylenetetramine) into one of the phases that are used to make the emulsion should increase the...

21 February 2021 8,680 1 View

How to get/count refractive index in gasses?

20 February 2021 8,202 6 View

Any Homemade Organic Synthesis Practices?

Hi everyone, I am a teacher of Heterocycles Synthesis, Is there a home practice that you recommend for undergraduate students? A simulator would also be useful Due to the pandemic, students...

18 February 2021 2,769 4 View