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The ecology and control of earthworms on golf courses [PDF]
, 2006 Earthworm casts on golf courses affect the playability of the turf and can potentially damage mowing equipment. Traditionally this problem has been limited using chemical controls.
Bartlett, Mark D.
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Microbial volatile fingerprints: potential use for soil/water diagnostics and correlation with traditional microbial parameters [PDF]
, 2007 This project used an electronic nose (E-nose) system composed of an array of 14 nonspecific conducting polymer sensors for soil and water diagnostics, based on qualitative microbial volatile production patterns. It tested the feasibility of using soil
Bastos, Ana Catarina
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Impact of inoculum type on the microbial community and power performance of urine-fed microbial fuel cells [PDF]
, 2020 Bacteria are the driving force of the microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology, which benefits from their natural ability to degrade organic matter and generate electricity. The development of an efficient anodic biofilm has a significant impact on the power
Salar-Garcia, Maria Jose +11 more
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BMC Microbiology, 2019 Background Metarhizium robertsii, a widely distributed insect pathogen, is presently used as a natural alternative to chemical insecticides. Unfortunately, its worldwide commercial use has been restricted by a short shelf life and inconsistencies in ...
Tian Xie +6 more
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Microbial Biotechnology, 2020 Summary Sexual mating of compatible sporida is essential for Sporisorium scitamineum to form dikaryotic mycelia and then cause infection on sugarcane. Our previous work identified a Pseudomonas sp.
Shiyin Liu +10 more
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Environmental Microbiome, 2022 Background The entomopathogenic Beauveria bassiana is a popular fungus used to control the Japanese pine sawyer, Monochamus alternatus Hope, the key vector of pine wood nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) that is the causal agent of pine wilt disease ...
Jundan Deng +7 more
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Microbial biopesticides for integrated crop management : an assessment of environmental and regulatory sustainability [PDF]
, 2008 Herbivorous insects and mites, plant diseases and weeds are major impediments to the production of food crops and are increasingly difficult to control with conventional chemicals.
Davidson, G. (Gill) +4 more
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Is the thermodynamic efficiency of soil microbial communities related to ecosystem maturity and stress? [PDF]
, 2014 According to the second law of thermodynamics, no process can be 100% efficient and all processes must increase the total entropy of the system they occupy.
Grice, Samuel M.
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Airborne bacterial populations above desert soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica [PDF]
, 2014 Bacteria are assumed to disperse widely via aerosolized transport due to their small size and resilience. The question of microbial endemicity in isolated populations is directly related to the level of airborne exogenous inputs, yet this has proven hard
Bottos, Eric M. +9 more
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BMC Plant Biology, 2019 Background Salicylic acid (SA) is a significant signaling molecule that induces rice resistance against pathogen invasion. Protein phosphorylation carries out an important regulatory function in plant defense responses, while the global phosphoproteome ...
Ranran Sun +6 more
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