The ability of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) to influence the performance of nonnative invasive plants in their introduced range has received increasing attention. The dependence of the invasive nonnative vine pale swallow-wort on AMF was studied in three greenhouse experiments. The aims of the present work were to (1) determine AMF colonization levels of field-collected pale swallow-wort ...

Do materials sterilized using gamma rays become toxic when re-sterilized in ethylene oxide? This question guided the objective of this study, which was to investigate the potential cytotoxic effect of PVC sterilized by gamma radiation and re-sterilized with EO by the agar diffusion method in cell cultures. Nine PVC tubes were subjected to gamma radiation sterilization and were re-sterilized in ...

The present study investigates £-radiation effect on structure and selected properties of a tetracalcium phosphate (TTCP)/dicalcium phosphate anhydrous (DCPA)/calcium sulfate hemihydrate (CSH) cement immersed in Hanks’ solution. The results indicate that, at a dosage of 25 kGy, the working and setting times of the cement paste derived from £-ray-sterilized TTCP/DCPA/CSH powder did not change si...

Listeria monocytogenes is a food-borne pathogen responsible for the potentially fatal disease listeriosis and terrestrial ecosystems have been hypothesized to be its natural reservoir. Therefore, identifying the key edaphic factors that influence its survival in soil is critical. We measured the survival of L. monocytogenes in a set of 100 soil samples belonging to the French Soil Quality Monit...

The biodegradation and transport of phenanthrene in porous media containing multiple populations of phenanthrene degraders is examined with a series of miscible-displacement experiments. A long-term experiment was conducted with a soil containing an indigenous microbial community comprised of 25 identified phenanthrene-degrading isolates. The rate and magnitude of phenanthrene biodegradation os...

There are few reports of the application of antibiosis as a possible means of controlling Verticillium alboatrum Reinke and Berthold. Most of these publications are concerned with in vitro studies which report the effects of various organisms or their products on V. albo-atrum (Ark and Hunt, 1941; Arnstein et al., 1948; Smith, 1947). Wilhelm (1951a) effected a reduction in the inoculum potentia...