Abstract Background Wild potato species harbor a distinctive rhizosphere microbiome relative to their modern counterparts, thus providing competitive advantage for acquiring phosphorus (P) in native habitats. Despite this, the effects of transferring phosphorus-solubilizing bacteria (PSB), recruited from wild potatoes rhizosphere, on varieties’ performance has not been investigated. Here, it wa...

Abstract This study aims to analyze the potential of molasses wastewater as a production medium for Bacillus cereus SN7 and B. consortium. The research was conducted experimentally using several strains such SN7, SP4, S5, Xmb051, BF2. Analysis carried out by growing consortium on liquid waste with added skim milk. In comparison, nutrient broth used positive control, sterile distilled water nega...

This paper investigates the unique pharyngeal and uvular consonants of Arabic from the point of view of automatic speech recognition (ASR). Comparisons of the recognition error rates for these phonemes are analyzed in five experiments that involve different combinations of native and non-native Arabic speakers. The most three confusing consonants for every investigated consonant are discussed. ...

Three weeks in advance of Frontiers in Membrane Protein Structural Dynamics 2014, Professor Klaus Schulten (Director of the Computational and Theoretical Biophysics Group at UIUC) phoned in with us from his native Germany to talk about his research interests, the state of the field, the Membrane Protein Structural Dynamics Consortium (MPSDC), and the keynote lecture that he will be giving at th...

The present study was conducted to evaluate the potential applicability of biological trickling filter system for the treatment of simulated textile wastewater containing reactive azo dyes with bacterial consortium under non-sterile conditions. The percentage decolorization for the treatment of wastewater containing structurally different dyes was found to be higher than 95% in all trials. The ...

BACKGROUND Enrichment culture was applied to obtain microbial consortium from activated sludge samples collected from biodegradation system, a chemical fiber plant in Hebei Province, China. Bacterial composition and community dynamic variation were assessed employing denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis fingerprinting technology based on amplified 16S rRNA genes in the entire process of enri...

Five strains of bacteria, namely, Exiguobacterium sp. ASW-1, Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain ASW-2, Alcaligenes sp. ASW-3, Alcaligenes sp. ASS-1, and Bacillus sp. ASS-2, were isolated from the Zhejiang coast in China. The mixed flora of the five strains performed well with degrading 75.1% crude oil (1%, w/v) in 7 days. The calcium alginate-activated carbon embedding carrier was used to immobilize...

The physicochemical and flocculating properties of a bioflocculant produced by a bacterial consortium composed of Halomonas sp. Okoh and Micrococcus sp. Leo were investigated. The purified bioflocculant was cation and pH dependent, and optimally flocculated kaolin clay suspension at a dosage of 0.1 mg/mL. The flocculating activity of the bioflocculant was stimulated in the presence of Ca2+, Mn2...

Water demand is increasing because of demographic and urban development in the last decades. Crude oil an essential energy resource for many anthropogenic activities. However, it associated with generation environmental pollution. In present work, a native microbial consortium was used to study hydrocarbon biodegradation crude its potential use remove organic pollutants wastewater. The kinetic ...