Is critical limit based fertilizer application is more important?

08 September 2017 6,812 21 View

How soil maintains health after transgenic crop cultivation?

There are many reports that soil health has not been significantly altered under transgenic (Bt) cultivation. I wonder to know how soil retaining health under long term Bt crop cultivation.

07 August 2017 3,850 10 View

What are the mechanisms of adaption of plants to adverse soil conditions?

How they are able to tolerate water-logging, oxygen deficit, stress and toxin accumulation?

07 August 2017 4,313 3 View

Is it possible to maintain particular enzyme activity in a soil with time frame ?

08 September 2016 9,133 4 View

Why bacteria are more susceptible to high temperature than actinobacteria/actinomycetes?

What makes bacteria more sensitive to temperature than actinobacteria/actinomycetes?

08 September 2016 5,043 11 View

Which one is more efficient between neem oil coated urea and sulfur coated urea for slow release of Nitrogen and their use efficiency?

Both neem oil coated and Sulfur coated Urea are recommending as slow release N fertilizer. The question is which one is more efficient in respect of slow release and N use efficiency.

07 August 2016 7,147 15 View

Whether nano-sensor can accurately measure the soil nutrient content?

Now-a-days there was lot of development on nano-sensor whether they can accurately measure the soil nutrient status so that it may be possible to get rid of lengthy chemical estimation of soils...

07 August 2016 9,377 4 View

Whether plants are really synthesizing nanoparticles?

It has been found that when nanoparticles are spraying on plant leaves, an appreciable amounts are stored in the vacuole. There are many literature presented that plants are synthesizing...

06 July 2016 9,009 14 View

Which one is more stronger phenomenon between mobilization and solubilization?

97-99% of the total P in the soil are in plant unavailable form, which may be either in the form of unavailable inorganic P like Ca-P, Fe-P, Al-P or in the form of unavailable organic P like...

06 July 2016 5,730 10 View

Whether phytase deserve to be consider as separate group of enzymes?

06 July 2016 7,223 1 View

I need to image mesoporous silica nanoparticles that are in ~100 nm size and do high resolution TEM to look at mesopores. what grids should I use?

Need to image mesoporous silica nanoparticles using the TEM. Also, need high resolution TEM images to see the mesoporous structure. Kindly suggest what kind of grids to use. Thanks, Shatadru

02 March 2021 1,787 2 View

Can chitosan alone can act as a reducing agent for Cu(0) nanoparticle sythesis?

[Synthesizing Cu nanoparticles without using chemical reductants]

01 March 2021 8,359 1 View

What are the new 2D nanomaterials were used for Silver nanoparticles stabilization?

In the stabilization of AgNPs are vital in current research interest. However, some of the 2D nano-materials like graphene oxide, MoS2, etc... previously used to stabilize it. But still they shown...

01 March 2021 2,207 3 View

What is the state of the drug inside solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs)?

I am a little confuse with the mechanism of solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs). The main point of encapsulating drugs into SLNs is because some drugs have low solubility in water. Therefore, SLNs...

01 March 2021 3,703 3 View

How to check the uv-vis absorption of nanoparticle by surface plasmon resonance?

I try to check the uv-vis absorption of Indium nanoparticle. Now I am measuring in solution, can I measure it in the form of a film?

01 March 2021 930 3 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

Distribution of particles in metal matrix?

How would define the "good" and "poor" distribution of particles within the matrix. Is there a quantitative solution to assess the distribution of the particles, which then having denotation of...

28 February 2021 7,397 8 View

How can I calculate the rdf of water molecules around 'Na' ions that are closest(adsorbed) to the nanoparticle(solute)?

Hi, I want to calculate the radial distribution function for water molecules around the Na+ ions adsorbed on the surface of a spherical nanoparticle using the gromacs trajectory dynamically? For...

28 February 2021 5,650 1 View

LEDs on Vis Light photo degradation of MB water sol via N doped TiO2 in a mini flume?

Good day to all, I have no experience with light emitting diodes. I am building a glass mini flume to demonstrate the photo degradation of Methylene Blue in water running over self cleaning...

26 February 2021 4,026 5 View

Can anyone share his experience regards Smoothing in origin?

I am working on TiO2 composite material and the results of XRD have a lot of small/junk peaks and while I apply a smooth filter in Origin then the other characteristics peaks disappear so anyone...

26 February 2021 8,183 3 View