Electrochemical stripping, a novel extension of electrodialysis, was used to recover nitrogen from source-separated urine. Urine has high nitrogen concentrations, making it an ideal waste stream for nitrogen recovery. A three-chamber, two-membrane cell was used to measure efficiencies and barriers to nitrogen migration. In preliminary batch studies, half of the influent nitrogen was recovered a...

This study focuses on the cell growth and the neutral lipid production modeling of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in terms of different ammonium concentrations. Autotrophy was maintained during growth in a double walled bioreactor, using Tris Phosphate (TP medium) with only CO(2) and NH(4)Cl as sole sources of carbon and nitrogen, respectively. Nitrogen depletion results in an increase in neutral li...

Oxygen minimum zones are major sites of fixed nitrogen loss in the ocean. Recent studies have highlighted the importance of anaerobic ammonium oxidation, anammox, in pelagic nitrogen removal. Sources of ammonium for the anammox reaction, however, remain controversial, as heterotrophic denitrification and alternative anaerobic pathways of organic matter remineralization cannot account for the am...

Sugar beets (Beta vulgaris L. cv F58-554H1) were grown hydroponically in a 16-h light, 8-h dark period at a photosynthetic photon flux density of 0.5 mmol m-2 s-1 for 4 weeks in half-Hoagland culture solution containing only nitrate-nitrogen. Half of the plants were then transferred to half-Hoagland solution with ammonium-nitrogen (7.35mM), while the other half continued on 7.5 mM nitrate. Grow...

Plants are dependent on exogenous nitrogen (N) supply. Ammonium (NH₄(+)), together with nitrate (NO₃(-)), is one of the main nitrogenous compounds available in the soil. Paradoxically, although NH4 (+) assimilation requires less energy than that of NO₃(-), many plants display toxicity symptoms when grown with NH₄(+) as the sole N source. However, in addition to species-specific ammonium toxicit...

Rhizobia-legume symbiosis is the most well researched biological nitrogen fixation system. Coating legume seeds with rhizobia is now a recognized practical measure for improving the production of legume corp. However, the efficacy of some commercial rhizobia inoculants cannot be guaranteed in China due to the low rate of live rhizobia in these products. A greenhouse experiment was conducted to ...

Nitrogen is the most important essential nutrient that plays a major role in achieving maximum crop yield in agriculture. Therefore, nitrogen fertilizers such as ammonium sulfate and urea have been extensively used in modern agriculture. These fertilizers are generally oxidized to nitrate via nitrite by nitrifying microorganisms in the agricultural field (4, 10, 11). The serious environmental p...

background & aim:peppermint known for its healing properties is a plant from the labiatae family. currently, different rates of nitrogenous fertilizers are used in production of peppermint while there is no precise information available about how much of nitrogen fertilizer is the optimum rate for this plant. the main purpose of this research was to evaluate the response of peppermint chemical ...

In a previous publication (45) data were presented to show that large amounts of glutamine, asparagine, amino acids, and other forms of soluble nitrogen, accumulated in the sap of the tops of corn seedlings in response to the absorption of large amounts of ammonium nitrogen from culture solutions. Ammonia did not accumulate in the sap and visible injury did not result until the soluble forms of...