this experiment was carried out in experimental farm of agricultural faculty of ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran during 2010. the design was split plot with three replications. main plots were the medicinal plant species consist of: blond psyllium (plantago ovate forssk.), clasping peperweed (lepidium perfoilatum l.), qodumeh shirazi (alyssum homolocarpum l.) dragon's head (lalementia iberi...

Experiments were conducted to remove heavy metals (Cr, Cd, Pb, Cu and Zn) from urban sewage sludge (SS) amended with spent mushroom compost (SMC) using worms, Lumbricus rubellus, for 105 days, after 21 days of pre-composting. Five combinations of SS/SMC treatments were prepared in triplicate along with a control for each treatment in microcosms. Analysis of the earthworms' multiplication and gr...

For clean a agriculture and safe environment, this study was conducted, which included the preparation of compost from Prosopis fracta Alhagi maurorum plants, evaluation Its as medium for tomato seedlings production comparing it with peat moss, an organic fertilizer in comparison number fertilizers - poultry wastes, cow sheep wastes spent mushroom residues, results showed superiority prepared o...

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) is an ancient crop widely known as Lobia, Vegetable crop, Black-eyed peas. used pulse, fodder, vegetable, and green manure crop. It to suffer from many diseases pests. Nematodes cause a severe damage cowpea production leading economic losses. Among the nematodes, root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) Farmyard manure, spent mushroom compost, leaf waste of mari...

Although Pseudomonas aeruginosa is widely reported to be ubiquitous in the environment, attempts to reliably isolate this opportunistic pathogen from environmental sources have often had limited success. In many cases, if present, P. aeruginosa is not detectable in quantifiable amounts and requires amplification through enrichment steps (2). P. aeruginosa is a common nosocomial pathogen infecti...

To Select an appropriate medium for the growth of plant is one of the problems of most greenhouse owners in production of pot ornamentals. So, current research was conducted to evaluate effect of some available media in mixtured by perlite on the growth of pothos. Study was based on a completely randomized design with 5 treatments, 8 measuring times and 6 replications in a fiberglass greenhouse...

This study was conducted in order to perform efficient extraction of lignocellulolytic enzymes amylase (EC 3.2.1.1), cellulase (EC 3.2.1.4), laccase (EC 1.10.3.2), and xylanase (EC 3.2.1.8) from spent mushroom compost (SMC) of Pleurotus ostreatus, P. eryngii, and P. cornucopiae. Optimal enzyme recovery was achieved when SMCs were extracted with 50 mM sodium citrate (pH 4.5) buffer at 4℃ for 2 h...