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

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

How much soil is is present at 30cm depth in one hectare?

05 June 2016 4,525 6 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

Have someone successfully used the ER alpha (Santa Cruz sc-8002) antibody in immunostaining ?

Santa Cruz now recommends this new antibody (F-10) but I can't find a publication using this reference. I'm working on human et non human primate hypothalamus and so far, it doesn't work. Is...

02 March 2021 10,003 2 View

How does the gut microbiome affect the fibrotic process within the liver?

and Can the gut microbe be used for the treatment or diagnosis of liver fibrosis?

02 March 2021 557 2 View

Energy minimization in LAMMPS using NVT ?

How do I do energy minimization in lammps with NVT ensemble ? I am using the following command and it does not seem to work. It stops at extremely high energy and gives me the error zero search...

01 March 2021 2,294 3 View

Is it possible to remove a preprint posted by a journal which is already rejected?

As we know many journals are posting preprints (DOI) in advance before the peer-review process. However, there is no guarantee that the preprints get published. The journal's reviewers undergo the...

01 March 2021 5,778 2 View

The Shannon's index is inversely proportional to Simpson's index (1-D)?

I'm having a problem with my bloxplot with Shannon's and Simpson's indexs. The value of Shannon for my Community 1 indicating higher diversity (in relation of the Community 2), but have lower...

26 February 2021 3,033 9 View

How to indicate the degree of litter decomposed by microbes?

Any technique could detect the degree of litter decomposed by microbes? Or any indexes could do this job? I want to split the contribution of microbes during decomposition, so any suggestions...

23 February 2021 1,362 5 View

In frequency domain alpha band(8-16hz), beta band(16-32hz), gamma band(32-64hz), sub-band(64-128hz) are same as LL,LH,HL,HH in wavelet decomposition?

I am working on single trial motor imagery data i.e. EEG data. I am following a paper which has a dataset from BCI challenge IV (dataset 2b). After removing noise and extracting all the data from...

23 February 2021 5,503 1 View

Rearranging abbreviation list in LaTeX ?

Hi, I'm trying to rearrange an abbreviation list for a manuscript such that it would be listed in alphabetical order. Is there a function that does this automatically or is manual my only option?...

18 February 2021 4,870 2 View

MVN, how to conciliate contradictory results from Multivariate normality and Multivariate outliers test?

Dear colleagues, I'm working with Path analyses in lavaan and MVN packages. There are some results that for me are confusing and features from the MVN that I do not know how to set. My dataset is...

18 February 2021 190 3 View

Can I get information about research laboratories that are currently having in culture, internationally/locally standardised microorganisms?

Microorganisms of interest include; E.coli; Salmonella typhimurium; Pseudomonas aeroginosa; Streptoccocus pneumoniae; Staphyloccocus aureus and Candida albicans. Locations closer to Port...

18 February 2021 6,500 3 View