Arsenic (As) accumulation in food crops such as rice is of major concern. To investigate whether phytoremediation can reduce As uptake by rice, the As hyperaccumulator Pteris vittata was grown in five contaminated paddy soils in a pot experiment. Over a 9-month period P. vittata removed 3.5-11.4% of the total soil As, and decreased phosphate-extractable As and soil pore water As by 11-38% and 1...

The potential of fungal pretreatment to improve fermentable sugar yields from wheat straw or Miscanthus was investigated. We assessed 63 fungal strains including 53 white-rot and 10 brown-rot fungi belonging to the Basidiomycota phylum in an original 12 day small-scale solid-state fermentation (SSF) experiment using 24-well plates. This method offers the convenience of one-pot processing of sam...

An Evaluation of the Invasive Potential of Beach Vitex (Vitex rotundifolia) Charles A. Gresham and Amber Neal The Belle W. Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, Clemson University P. O. Box 596, Georgetown, SC 29442 ABSTRACT This study was conducted to determine if the introduced woody plant Beach Vitex, Vitex rotundifolia (Verbenaceae), (BV), has the potential to displace nat...

What lessons have we learned at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) about knowledge translation (KT) over the past 20 years, and what is our vision for the future? How does that KT interrelate with our other activities - research and the Population Health Data Repository? Who first noticed that "there's gold in them thar hills," and what did they do about it? How did we weave administr...

To evaluate the effect of fungal inoculants, a pot experiment was carried out on 30 days old transplanted seedlings of Gmelina arborea under nursery condition. Transplants were inoculated with seven day old liquid culture of Aspergillus ellipticus, Fusarium incarnatum, Aspergillus aculeatus, Aspergillus candidus, Penicillium species, Alternaria alternata, Penicillium species, Fusarium javanicum...

Biochar and compost applications are alternative in improving soil chemical properties, such as Ultisol utilizing the current abundance of biomass waste. has long available properties takes longer to decompose than compost. This study aims compare effect biochar for several months incubation on properties. research was conducted with pot from plastic cup placed a greenhouse using non-factorial ...

BACKGROUND Oral language skills in the preschool and early school years are critical to educational success and provide the foundations for the later development of reading comprehension. METHODS In a randomized controlled trial, 180 children from 15 UK nursery schools (n = 12 from each setting; M(age) = 4;0) were randomly allocated to receive a 30-week oral language intervention or to a wait...

white mold with upright architecture has progressed relatively slowly. Cumbersome screening methods, low Physiological resistance is an important component of integrated heritability, and few available resistance sources have strategies used to control white mold [caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary], a major disease of common bean (Phaseolus contributed to the lack of progress fo...

Thirty-three social isolates were selected from four nursery school populations according to teacher ratings and behavioral samples obtained by trained Os. In a 2 X 2 factorial design, half of the children viewed a 23-min. modeling film depicting appropriate social behavior, while the other half viewed a control film. Half of the subjects in each film condition then received social reinforcemen...