Tag: hydroponic

Bacteria from many genera, including Alcaligenes, Agrobacterium, Azospirillum, Azotobacter, Arthrobacter, Bacillus, Bradyrhizobium, Burkholderia, Caulobacter, Chromobacterium, Enterobacter, Erwinia, Flavobacterium, Herbaspirillum, Klebsiella, Mesorhizobium, Micrococcus, Pseudomonas, Rhizobium, Rhodococcus, and Serratia, can enhance plant growth . PGPRs can be divided intosymbiotic bacteria and free-living rhizobacteria based on their interaction with plants. Symbiotic bacteria live within plant tissues and exchange…

One of the most promising aspects of herbarium-based phenological data is the potential to expand our taxonomic and geographic sampling of phenological research. For example, thevast collections of specimens from species-rich tropical and subtropical biomes could be used to greatly enhance phenological research in these regions where field based phenological data, especially on the timescale of recent…

The A2 clade II consisted of isolates with unique genotypes collected only in Southern California. Interestingly, the authors in this study included isolates from P. cinnamomi previously identified as belonging to the A2 type 1 and A2 type 2 described by Dobrowolski et al. , however these isolates clustered within the A2 clade I group,…

We constructed models with raw network values as the response variables and constructed models with Z-scores from observed vs. null comparisons as response variables. Each model included honey bee abundance as a fixed effect and site and sample round as separate random effects. For models of PAC and d’, which were measured at the pollinator…

The downside of such models is that they fail to provide comparative statics that can be tested with the data I observe in this setting.A growing literature has rigorously documented the non-linear impact of temperature on everything from corn yields to cognitive performance , but has not focused specifically on how temperature affects agricultural workers. Nevertheless, several recent…

The usage of cellulase and pectinase also helped with pectin extraction, which further increased the value obtained from the waste process. More forms of enzymes and catalysts are expected to be developed for lower production costs.Supercritical fluid extraction is another extraction method with increasing popularity. It utilizes supercritical fluid, such as high-pressure water and CO2, instead…

While select plants have been utilized for metabolic engineering, individual species have undergone limited host engineering. This highlights a current need for the field, as host engineering could be a valuable means to improve the yields and quality of plant-produced biomolecules. Plants are increasingly used for the production of antibodies; however, their use has been…

Studies on murine cell lines include the extensively used monocyte/macrophage RAW 264.7 cells and primary bone marrow-derived macrophages that can be readily activated by binding ligand to several toll-like receptors . Numerous studies on blueberry treatment of murine cell lines use TLR4-activated models, through the addition of the bacterial cell wall component LPS at doses varying…

These results indicate that floral plantings have great potential to benefit ecosystem service provision, but to do so will need to be carefully tailored for functioning at specific spatial scales. Flower diversity and strip age are important drivers through which this can be achieved and they should be considered integrally before floral plantings can make…

KEGG pathways represent broad metabolic reactions shared among many organisms, and it is common to map genes or compounds to KEGG pathways alongside Gene Ontology annotations for enrichment analyses. However, because KEGG pathways represent a generalized set of reactions leading to many possible compound classes , it lacks the granularity to analyze metabolism on a species-specific…