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Olga Kulesha and Harsha Ratnaweera
The membrane bioreactor (MBR) and the biofilm membrane bioreactor (BF-MBR) are among key solutions to water scarcity; however, membrane fouling is the major bottleneck for any expansion of these technologies. Prepolymerized aluminum coagulants tend to ex...
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Xiaofang Yao, Qiumei Liu, Yongxin Liu and Dejun Li
Macadamia decline poses a serious economic threat to the macadamia industry. It exhibits either a slow decline due to infection by Kretzschmaria clavus or Ganoderma lucidum, or a quick decline caused by pathogens like Phytophthora spp., Lasiodiplodia spp...
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Huijuan Bo, Donghe Xue, Zejin Li, Haibo Wang, Dongsheng Jin and Hao Wang
Microbial residual carbon is an important component in soil carbon pool stability. Here, we tested soils collected from the early (first year, R1), middle (10 years, R10), and long-term (30 years, R30) stages of reclamation in a coal mining area in China...
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Qingsong Zhao, Jingjing Dong, Zhiyong Yan, Ling Xu and Ake Liu
The use of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) residue as a crop culture substrate has unique advantages in alleviating the obstacles associated with continuous monocropping, such as increasing production, improving quality and alleviating pests and disea...
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Wei Tang, Ziguang Li, Haipeng Guo, Boyu Chen, Tingru Wang, Fuhong Miao, Chao Yang, Wangdan Xiong and Juan Sun
Although weeds can be inhibited by high planting densities, canopy shading, elemental balance and soil microbial recruitment are not yet adequately considered when measuring competitive effects on weed control. The effects of oat (Avena sativa) planting ...
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Lijun Li, He Li, Lihong Tong and Yizhong Lv
It is desirable to recycle sewage sludge as fertilizer for agricultural fields. The application of sludge to agricultural soils is a measure that replaces chemical fertilizers and plays an important role in improving soil?s physicochemical and biological...
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Minglei Ma, Qiang Gui, Weisheng Zheng, Yingjie Zhang and Kai Wang
Ammonia nitrogen wastewater causes dissolved oxygen concentrations to decrease and the content of harmful substances to increase. To characterize the application properties of two novel strains of highly efficient ammonium transforming fungi?Pichia kudri...
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Luis J. Amaro Leal, Arturo Huerta de la Peña, Ignacio Ocampo Fletes, Pedro Antonio López, Nemesio Villa-Ruano and Omar Romero-Arenas
Leafcutter ants (Atta spp.) are one of the mos t economically harmful pests in agriculture, considered dominant in the Neotropics and South America. Mature colonies of A. mexicana have a great economic impact on Mexico?s agriculture. Microbial agents in ...
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Charlotte Amy, Jean-Christophe Avice, Karine Laval, Isabelle Trinsoutrot-Gattin and Mélanie Bressan
Biointrants constitute a promising opportunity to lower mineral input on rapeseed, characterized by high nutrient requirements. As bio-inoculants, phosphate-solubilizing bacteria (PSB) could increase the amount of available P in a soil solution. However,...
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Jiufu Luo, Zhongxin Luo, Wen Li, Wenbo Shi and Xin Sui
The co-allocation of photovoltaic arrays with crops presents a promising strategy to mitigate the conflict between photovoltaics and agricultural land. However, there is a notable lack of quantitative research on the impact of agrivoltaic system on land ...
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