Which is the best media for enumerating zinc mobilizing microbes from wheat rhizosphere?

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Can we Calculate nitrgen fixing ability of Diazotrophs through Kjeldhal's Method?

We are intending to calculate the atmospheric nitrogen fixing ability of diazotrophs through Kjeldhal's method as we don't have the facility of Gas Chromatograph at our lab. Anyone to guide the...

03 April 2018 151 3 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

Recommendations on homogenizers for RNA isolation?

I will be performing RNA isolation with frozen lung biopsy samples and am in the market for a tissue homogenizer. I am wanting a homogenizer that will fit in a 1.5ml tube. I was looking at the...

24 February 2021 3,623 3 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

How to improve RNA isolation?

Hi, I have been struggling with a weird issue for my RNA samples. I used the Qiagen RNA plus mini kit. For some reason no matter how careful I am with the washes, when I measure the RNA, I get...

22 February 2021 1,286 6 View

What might be the reason for obtaining two bands in plant genomic DNA extraction?

I got a thin band and a thick band i guess it would be the genomic DNA and the 260/280 ratio is 3.

21 February 2021 6,523 6 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

What are the LAB methodologies (procedures, equipment etc) for CO2 enrichment experiments to study crop responses?

I am doing a proposal for a research entitled 'GRAIN YIELD AND QUALITY RESPONSES OF WHEAT GENOTYPES UNDER CO2 ENRICHMENT AND EXTREME EVENTS' I will be using climate chamber and I would like to...

18 February 2021 6,494 4 View

FDC and FRC cell populations in mouse spleen?

I was trying to isolate fibroblastic reticular cells (FRC) and follicular dendritic cells from mice spleen, but kept getting poor yield. I found from literature that the frequency of FDC is around...

17 February 2021 3,506 4 View

Can one use just 250 micron sieve & still get a good number of mycorrhizal spores from the soil?

In a situation where one cannot get the appropriate & separate levels of sieve for mycorrhizal survey work, can just one level of sieve give good results & spore counts?

13 February 2021 3,760 2 View

Charmm/GROMACS Residue 'ZN' not found in residue topology database?

I am trying to do some MD simulations of a protein with zinc ions. I am trying to use a charmm forcefield (I have tried 2017 and 2021) and Gromacs. I get an error when doing pdb2gmx Residue 'ZN'...

12 February 2021 9,367 2 View