Hello, I want to know how changes in the amount of phosphorus in the soil affect the density of microflora of soil (bacteria, fungi and actinomycetes?

Thanks in advance,

04 May 2019 6,587 4 View

How do you prepare chloroform (alcohol free) ?

Can anyone kindly share on how to prepare chloroform (alcohol free)? the chloroform (alcohol free) will be used for chloroform fumigation-incubation method to estimate microbial biomass C and N...

02 March 2018 6,875 2 View

What is the best way used in enumerating the numbers of fungi in a medium (PDA)?

03 April 2017 6,612 0 View

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02 March 2017 1,352 11 View

How to grow E.coli on the low salt LB agar plate with 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin?

Hello, I would like to ask how to grow E.coli which resists 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin. I have tried many methods by using low salt Luria-Bertain(LB) agar plate. However, no colonies grow. Let...

01 March 2021 2,027 2 View

Can bacterial suspension be pipetted directly onto petri dish and agar poured onto it?

Hi, recently I encountered a protocol for plating which was not the usual method I have been practicing (pour LB agar onto plate, allow it to solidify, pipette bacterial suspension onto plate,...

28 February 2021 7,292 3 View

Does RNAiMAX transfection reagent work in serum free medium?

I diluted siRNA and RNAiMAX in opti-MEM and added to the cells which they were in the growth medium. Is it a right way? or should I culture cells in the opti-MEM medium for a while and not in...

26 February 2021 10,041 3 View

Difficulty in cloning of 1kb gene into vector?

I am facing difficulties in cloning a 1kb gene into a vector (pJIT163). I have my gene on interest (GOI) in pUC57 and want to clone in pJIT163 using SalI and BamHI restriction sites. I am getting...

25 February 2021 3,221 7 View

Advice on growing lactobacillus species in the lab?

Hello everyone, For part of my PhD project, I'm hoping to grow some lactobacillus species in the lab so that I can create standard curves for a qPCR quantification of a faecal sample. However, I...

24 February 2021 3,157 6 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

Can 5-FOA Diffuse Through Agar?

I am preparing to do a gene knockout in the filamentous fungi Coccidioides posadasii targeting pyrG/URA3 so that 5-FOA can be used for selection pressure instead of traditional antibiotic...

16 February 2021 169 4 View

Measurement of water retention in organic substrates without a pressure plate?

Hello, I'm trying to measure the physical and hydrological properties of organic substrate media. Currently, I'm referring The book Soil sampling and Methods of Analysis by Carter and Gregorich....

09 February 2021 3,233 8 View