Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is one of the most widely exploited diagnostics tools in the fields of the water monitoring and management as well as in the recent application fields of the agricultural geophysics. In this work, we present the most recent results concerning with a state of art data processing for GPR based on accurate models of the inverse scattering at the basis of the sensing ...

Nucleic acid hybridization among root-knot nematode mitochondrial DNAs can be used to identify several Meloidogyne species. Research was initiated to optimize mitochondrial DNA-based molecular diagnostics for the demanding environments likely to be encountered in field isolates. DNA hybridization using reconstituted DNA-soil mixtures revealed a loss of assay sensitivity ranging from 34% to 92% ...

the performance of different yield loss models from an exponential family was evaluated in safflower-redroot pigweed systems in two field experiments conducted during 2007 and 2008 growing seasons at the research field of agricultural college of shiraz university, iran. the yield loss of safflower was recorded as relative yield loss in experimental plots laid out in split plot design with three...

Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) causes serious infections in people at risk and has a significant environmental prevalence due to contamination by human and animal excreta. In developing countries, UPEC assumes importance in certain dwellings because of poor community/personal hygiene and exposure to contaminated water or soil. We report the complete genome sequence of E. coli strain NA11...

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Soils are localized between base rock, atmosphere and vegetation, and represent a home for numerous organisms and the place of countless biogeochemical transformation and transfer processes. In addition, soils store many substances that are essential to maintain human life and ecosystem processes. Therefore, soils have been a research focus for more than a century and soil science has deep conn...

The detection sensitivity and potential interference factors of a commonly used assay based on real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for Escherichia coli O157:H7 using eae gene-specific primers were assessed. Animal wastes and soil samples were spiked with known replicate quantities of a nontoxigenic strain of E. coli O157:H7 in a viable or dead state and as unprotected DNA. The detection s...