Soil amendments are used to improve soil quality, thereby enhancing plant growth and health. Efforts have been made replace synthetic chemical enhancers. It is also preferable not use natural products such as peat moss, the harvesting of which can be harmful marine ecosystems. Viable replacements include worm castings, contribute beneficial microbes, well physicochemical amendments. Another pot...

The syntrophic community between anaerobic methanotrophic archaea and sulfate reducing bacteria forms thick, black layers within multi-layered microbial mats in chimney-like carbonate concretions of methane seeps located in the Black Sea Crimean shelf. The microbial consortium conducts anaerobic oxidation of methane, which leads to the formation of mainly two biomineral by-products, calcium car...

The potential of microbial mediated iron plaque reduction, and associated arsenic (As) mobility were examined by iron reducing bacteria enriched from As contaminated paddy soil. To our knowledge, this is the first time to report the impact of microbial iron plaque reduction on As mobility. Iron reduction occurred during the inoculation of iron reducing enrichment culture in the treatments with ...

We tested the ability of an improved hydrogen peroxide solution to decontaminate privacy curtains in inpatient and outpatient areas. The microbial contamination of the curtains was assessed before and after the curtains were sprayed with improved hydrogen peroxide. The disinfectant reduced the microbial load on the privacy curtains by 96.8% in 37 patient rooms.

traditional microbiology concepts are being renewed since the development of new microbiological technologies, such as, sequencing and large-scale genome analysis. since the entry into the new millennium, a lot of new information has emerged regarding the oral microbiome. this revision presents an overview of this renewed knowledge on oral microbial community acquisition in the newborn and on t...