Some agricultural residues such as wheat or barley straw, as well as certain fast-growing plants like Leucaena leucocephala and Chamaecytisus proliferus, could be used as raw materials for the paper industry as an alternative to traditional plants (eucalyptus, pine, etc.). In the present study, four types of lignin obtained from the spent liquors produced by the pulping processes using the abov...

Ganoderma lucidum is recognized as a powerful medicinal fungus because of its pharmacological effects and it is cultivated worldwide, using hardwood sawdust as a substrate in synthetic formulation. However, relative abundance of cereal straws such as wheat straw in an agricultural country like India could be exploited for commercial production of this mushroom. Therefore, solid state fermentati...

introduction feed shortage is the most important characteristic of iranian animal industry. increased costs of livestock production have caused the iranian producers to reduce feed costs mainly by inclusion low quality crop residues into ruminants diets. it is estimated that around 20 million tons wheat straw produced in iran every year. both the digestibility and crude protein content of wheat...

introduction in dry areas, water is the limiting factor in improving agricultural production. saving the annual precipitation in the soil is very effective in dryland farming. the amount of rainfall that infiltrates the soil depends on the amount of soil permeability and runoff. the surface remains will be able to better permeable prevent runoff and raindrops and reduce erosion. in addition, ev...

A fungus Pyrenophora tritici-repentis induces tan spot of wheat which is a foliar disease that causes yield loss to wheat crops worldwide. In this study, a new, simple and non-costly technique was performed to produce the sexual stage of this fungus in culture, within 9 weeks using wheat straw. This protocol will be helpful to researchers studying the biology of sexual stage development, diseas...

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of electron beam irradiation at doses of 250 and 500 kGy on the chemical composition and ruminal dry matter (DM) and neutral detergent fiber (NDF) degradability of wheat straw. Nylon bags of untreated or irradiated wheat straw were suspended in the rumen of three rams for up to 72 h, and resulting data were fitted to non-linear degradation model t...

The aim of this paper is to find out new alternative materials that respond to sustainable development criteria. For this purpose, an original utilization of straw for the design of lightweight aggregate concretes is proposed. Four types of straw were used: three wheat straws and a barley straw. In the present study, the morphology and the porosity of the different straw aggregates was studied ...

BACKGROUND Mineral elements present in lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks may accumulate in biorefinery process streams and cause technological problems, or alternatively can be reaped for value addition. A better understanding of the distribution of minerals in biomass in response to pretreatment factors is therefore important in relation to development of new biorefinery processes. The object...

Soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration is important for improving soil fertility of cropland and for the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. The efficiency of SOC sequestration depends on the quantity and quality of the organic matter, soil type, and climate. Little is known about the SOC sequestration efficiency of organic amendments in Vertisols. Thus, we conducted the ...