A Quadratic Regression Model to Quantify Plantation Soil Factors That Affect Tea Quality

Conventional to Ecological: Tea Plantation Soil Management in Panchagarh District of Bangladesh

Non-Genetic Factors that Affect Quality Grade of Fed Cattle

Quality grade of fed cattle is an important economic trait since approximately half of US fed cattle are marketed through value-based systems where carcasses are priced individually based on quality grade, yield grade and other factors. Quality grade of young cattle is primarily determined by marbling, a complex biological trait that has multiple controls and is not well understood. Once the ge...

Biodecaffeination by Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes TPS8, an Isolated Strain from Tea Plantation Soil

Development of an environmental friendly and cost-effective process for microbial degradation of caffeine to non-toxic compounds are promising to solve the problems of physiochemical extraction of caffeine in the treatment the caffeine containing agro-industrial effluents. Thirteen bacterial strains, isolated from tea plantation soils in the north region of Iran, were screened to show their abi...

Occupational exposure of Sri Lankan tea plantation workers to paraquat.

Absorption of the herbicide paraquat (1,1'-dimethyl-4,4'-bipyridinium) by mixer-loaders and spray operators on a Sri Lankan tea plantation was assessed over five consecutive days of spraying. Beginning on the day before spraying started and continuing for each of the five spraying days and for seven days after the last day of spraying, 24-hour urine samples were collected from each of the worke...

Diversity and functional properties of acid-tolerant bacteria isolated from tea plantation soil of Assam

In this study, we report on the bacterial diversity and their functional properties prevalent in tea garden soils of Assam that have low pH (3.8-5.5). Culture-dependent studies and phospholipid fatty acid analysis revealed a high abundance of Gram-positive bacteria. Further, 70 acid-tolerant bacterial isolates characterized using a polyphasic taxonomy approach could be grouped to the genus Baci...