Northern peatlands are a large repository of atmospheric carbon due to an imbalance between primary production by plants and microbial decomposition. The James Bay Lowlands (JBL) of northern Ontario are a large peatland-complex but remain relatively unstudied. Climate change models predict the region will experience warmer and drier conditions, potentially altering plant community composition, ...

Biochar can increase microbial activity, alter microbial community structure, and increase soil fertility in arid and semi-arid soils, but at relatively high rates that may be impractical for large-scale field studies. This contrasts with organic amendments such as manure, which can be abundant and inexpensive if locally available, and thus can be applied to fields at greater rates than biochar...

The cyclodextrin glucanotransferase are extracellular enzymes that can hydrolysis starch as a substrate to cyclodextrin. Encapsulation and immobilization technique of microbial cells within the polymeric network have widespread applications in production enzyme. Bacterial were isolated from soil by serial dilution method. molecular identity was established using 16S rDNA sequence analysis, iden...

This special issue is dedicated to the study of microbial enzymes and their applications in various industries. The biocatalytic uses for enzymes have grown immensely in recent years since they are ecologically correct, have a high specificity, present chemo-regio-enantio selectivity, and have a wide diversity of reactions. Moreover, the conditions to obtain and optimize the production of enzym...

The metabolites and enzymes synthesized by microorganisms have been widely used as food (Mitsuhashi, 2014; Wendisch, 2014), pharmaceuticals (Elander, 2003; Endo, 2010), biofuels (Geddes et al., 2011), pesticides (Waldron et al., 2001; Yoon et al., 2004), and detergents (Shaligram and Singhal, 2010), as well as in the manufacturing process of these industrial products (Kirk et al., 2002; Merino ...

Currently, measuring enzyme activities in soils or other lignocellulose-based materials is technically feasible; this measurement is particularly suitable for evaluating soil processes of biopolymer (cellulose, hemicelluloses, lignin, chitin and others) degradation by microbes and for assessing cycling and mobilization of principal nutrients including nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur. With some ...

323 ISSN 1759-7269 10.4155/BFS.09.25 © 2010 Future Science Ltd †Author for correspondence 1Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401, USA 2Bioenergy Science Center (BESC), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN 37830, USA 3Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel 4Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizman...

The effect of Indigenous microorganisms (IMO’s) on the native soil was investigated in the present study. Supplementation of IMO’s suspension to the soil alters the physico-chemical, biological and enzyme properties of the soil. These alternations include decreases in P from 7.2 to 6.8, increase in electrical conductivity 0.36 to 1.21 (μmohs/cm), water holding capacity 0.36 to 2.2ml/g of soil o...

Phytic acid is an antinutritional compound that chelates P and essential divalent cations such as Fe, Ca, Zn in cereals major staple crops wheat, maize, rice, sorghum. As a result, these cannot be absorbed by monogastric animals or humans: phytic has inhibitory effect on nutrient uptake its levels are negatively correlated with protein starch digestibility. However, can degraded the action of e...