Warming due to global climate change is predicted to reach 2°C in tropical latitudes. There is an alarming paucity of information regarding the effects of air temperature on tropical agroecosystems, including foraging pastures. Here, we investigated the effects of a 2°C increase in air temperature over ambient for 30 days on an established tropical pasture (Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil) do...

The effect of chromium (VI) on the activity of dehydrogenases, urease, acid and alkaline phosphatases and the yield of lupine was assayed in a pot experiment. Chromium was applied as K2Cr2O7 in the amounts of 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100 and 150 in mg · kg of soil. The tests were conducted on brown leached soil from slightly dusty clay sand of pH in 1 M KCl 5.80. Soil was inoculated with nitragin...

Deforestation leads to the deterioration of soil fertility which occurs rapidly under tropical climates. Forest rehabilitation is one of the approaches to restore soil fertility and increase the productivity of degraded areas. The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare soil biological properties under enrichment planting and secondary forests at Tapah Hill Forest Reserve, Perak aft...

Introd u ction Clinical chemistry, for decades restricted to a limited number of chemical tests, has, in recent years, through an increasing awareness of the value of the laboratory investigation of disease, and the introduc­ tion of automation and sophisticated instru­ mentation, expanded its field of operations to include a bewildering variety of tests. Advances in biochemical knowledge have ...

conclusions the present study suggests that the enzyme obtained from strain b. subtilis can be used as feed supplement in animal diet also for reduction of phosphorus pollution problem in areas of livestock production. materials and methods the present study was conducted in biotechnology laboratory, motilal nehru national institute of technology, allahabad, uttar pradesh, india. to isolate phy...

conclusions in this study, we isolated b. licheniformis producing an organic solvent-stable protease from oil-contaminated soil. the protease was stable and active in various organic solvents. by purification, the protease could be used as a biocatalyst for organic solvent-based enzymatic synthesis. results according to 16srdna sequencing, strain isa9 was identified as a new strain of bacillus ...