Dung beetles increase plant growth: a meta-analysis

DJ Anderson, JD Berson… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The ecosystem services provided by dung beetles are well known and valued. Dung beetles
bury dung for feeding and breeding, and it is generally thought that the process of burying …

Biochar mediated alterations in herbicide breakdown and leaching in soil

DL Jones, G Edwards-Jones, DV Murphy - Soil biology and Biochemistry, 2011 - Elsevier
Biochar application to soil has been proposed as a mechanism for improving soil quality and
the long term sequestration of carbon. The implications of biochar on pesticide behavior …

Effect of some organic amendments on barley plants under saline condition

SA Rekaby, MYM Awad, SA Hegab… - Journal of plant …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Enrichment of soils with organic amendments could increase the content of available
nutrients, improve soil chemical characteristics and increase plant growth. In the current pots …

Compost and Humic Acid Mitigate the Salinity Stress on Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd L.) and Improve Some Sandy Soil Properties

SA Rekaby, AA Al-Huqail, M Gebreel… - Journal of Soil Science …, 2023 - Springer
Enrichment of sandy soils with compost and humic acid amendments could increase the
contents of nutrient availability, improve soil chemical characteristics and enhance quinoa …

Measuring soil organic carbon: which technique and where to from here?

TJ Johns, MJ Angove, S Wilkens - Soil Research, 2015 - CSIRO Publishing
This review compares and contrasts analytical techniques for the measurement of total soil
organic carbon (TOC). Soil TOC is seen to be a highly important health and quality indicator …

[HTML][HTML] Corn cob-derived biochar improves the growth of saline-irrigated quinoa in different orders of Egyptian soils

SA Rekaby, M Awad, A Majrashi, EF Ali, MA Eissa - Horticulturae, 2021 - mdpi.com
Biochar is one of the important recycling methods in sustainable development, as it ensures
the transformation of agricultural wastes into fertilizers and conditioners that improve soil …

Evaluation of the biological stability of waste during landfill stabilization by thermogravimetric analysis and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

H Wu, Y Zhao, Y Long, Y Zhu, H Wang, W Lu - Bioresource Technology, 2011 - Elsevier
This study seeks to assess the biological stability of landfilled municipal solid waste (MSW)
based on the changes in organic matter, as revealed by thermogravimetric analysis and …

[HTML][HTML] The Role of Poultry Litter and Its Biochar on Soil Fertility and Jatropha curcas L. Growth on Sandy-Loam Soil

BL Masocha, O Dikinya - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Low agricultural output and a decline in plant-available nutrient content in soil pose
significant challenges to develo** countries. To test the hypothesis that poultry litter and its …

Evolution of unsaturated hydraulic properties of municipal solid waste with landfill depth and age

H Wu, H Wang, Y Zhao, T Chen, W Lu - Waste Management, 2012 - Elsevier
Successful modeling of liquid and air flow and hence designing of liquid and air addition
systems in the landfills are constrained by the lack of key parameters of unsaturated …

Ample glycosylation in membrane and cell envelope proteins may explain the phenotypic diversity and virulence in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

AG Birhanu, SA Yimer, S Kalayou, T Riaz, ED Zegeye… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Multiple regulatory mechanisms including post-translational modifications (PTMs) confer
complexity to the simpler genomes and proteomes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) …