abstract date palm, phoenix dactylifera, is one of the most important horticultural crops in iran. the most soils in iran, especially those cultivated with palm, are calcareous with high ph. the high ph of soil causes reduction of nutrient elements absorption. findings of researches show that application of elemental sulfur along with tiobacillus bacteria in soil, due to sulfur oxidation, reduc...

a new solution aiming at coal biodesulphurization has been developed based on the use of bacteria. the most frequently used species of bacteria for removal of inorganic sulphur compounds are thiobacillus ferrooxidans, thiobacillus thiooxidans and thiobacillus acidophilus. in this study the coal sample was decomposed initially and desulphurization experiments was carried out in pure and mixed cu...

the effects of inoculation of thiobacillus and the type of nitrogen fertilization (urea and ammonium sulphate fertilizers) on yield and yield components of rapeseed cultivars (okapi, slm 046 and reagent * cobra) were studied. the experiment was carried out as spilit plot factorial in randomized complete block design with 4 replications in shahrood university of technology. reagent * cobra culti...

We investigated the production and regeneration of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans spheroplasts. Regeneration frequencies of up to 90% reversion were obtained. Attempts to transform T. ferrooxidans spheroplasts with a recombinant T. ferrooxidans plasmid were unsuccessful.

Seven strains of heterotrophic iron-oxidizing acidophilic bacteria were examined to determine their abilities to promote oxidative dissolution of pyrite (FeS2) when they were grown in pure cultures and in mixed cultures with sulfur-oxidizing Thiobacillus spp. Only one of the isolates (strain T-24) oxidized pyrite when it was grown in pyrite-basal salts medium. However, when pyrite-containing cu...

a factorial experiment based on complete block design was conducted to study the interactive effects of sulfur fertilizer and thiobacillus bacteria on corn growth and root colonization with two species of mycorrhiza fungi. treatments were five levels of sulfur (s0: 0, s1: 50, s2: 100, s3: 150 and s4: 200 mg.kg-1 of dry soil), thiobacillus in two levels [no application (t0) and application of ba...

In a preliminary communication (Trudinger, 1958) the separation of some soluble cytochromes of the autotrophic sulphur bacterium Thiobacillue X was briefly reported. Addition of thiosulphate to intact cells results in the rapid reduction of the cytochromes and the present work was undertaken to attempt to characterize the cytochromes and to obtain some information on the electron-transport chai...

This paper reports results of studies on the influence of the crystallographic mineral structure on the process of pyrite and marcasite leaching. Kinetic studies show that the crystallographic structure of minerals like FeS2 type does not influence the efficiency of the process.