Steger, K. 2006. Composition of Microbial Communities in Composts A Tool to Assess Process Development and Quality of the Final Product. Doctoral dissertation. ISSN 1652-6880, ISBN 91-576-7080-3 The potential of microbial community fingerprinting methods to provide information about compost maturity in composting facilities was investigated. Studies in a pilot-scale reactor equipped with indepe...

Manganese (Mn) toxicity in crops is a serious problem in Hawaii, especially Kauai and Oahu, where most soils are highly weathered. To devise a management strategy to control Mn toxicity, a greenhouse experiment was conducted on an acid (pH 4.4) Oxisol (Wahiawa series) having 15g·kg total Mn. Factorial combinations of lime (0, 2.0, and 4.0 g·kg CaCO3) and two composts (made from chicken manure a...

Composting is a good option of solid waste recycling, but its use by the farmers limited because low nutrient status. Our study has considered organic amendments to increase status MSW compost. We prepared three types amended compost mixing 20% mustard oil cake (MOC) and 30% poultry manure (PM) or cowdung (CD) sugarcane press mud (SPM) with 50% Trichoderma viridi inoculum was used accelerate co...