tions that affect human health, garden plants, or crops. Studies done in the early 1990s on pesticide residues at composting facilities which accept yard trimmings showed that although many commonly used pesticides are occasionally found on yard trimmings entering the facilities, very low or undetectable levels are present in commercially produced composts. Two exceptions are DDT metabolites an...

Abstract With increasing urbanization and critical issues of food insecurity emerging globally, urban agriculture is expanding as an agroecosystem with a distinct soil type. Growing in cities challenged by legacy contaminants soils, which necessitates the use imported, safe soils composts. To promote long-term sustainability agriculture, we examined agronomic potential constructing safe, locall...

Research on biosorption of organic dyes is an important subject for the development clean technologies treatment textile wastewater. In this work, process sorption four different natures, namely Basic Violet 10 (BV10), Acid Red 27 (AR27), Direct Blue 151 (DB151) and Reactive 4 (RV4) onto two composts, pine bark compost municipal solid waste compost, has been studied. For this, kinetics equilibr...

the purpose of this study was to look for carbon materials for composting with rabbit manure. rabbit manure was composted with rice straw and mushroom residues. during the composting process, different related parameters were evaluated. results showed that the rabbit manure could be normally co-composted with rice straw or with mushroom residues. the gi value showed that both composts could hel...

In this study, natural and artificial radioactivity concentration in Agaricus bispora (nourished mushroom) and their composts, Cantharellus cibarius and Coprinus micaceuc (wild species) were determined. Samples were collected from Sahne and two kinds of wild mushroom species from Songhor Koliai township gardens all located in Kermanshah Province were collecte...

Composts are widely used in horticulture as organic amendments to improve the properties of soils. have also been reported enhance disease suppressive potential soils and, therefore, could be a strategy for managing plant diseases. The aim this study was test ability amended with four different agro-industrial waste-based composts (chestnut peels and shells, spent coffee grounds, grape marc, ol...

INTRODUCTION Unlike other Legionella species, Legionella longbeachae has been associated with soil and potting composts instead of water systems, and it has caused pneumonia in gardeners. CASE PRESENTATION We report, to our knowledge, the first case of prolonged localized L. longbeachae infection in an accidental wound on the back of a hand caused by a broken flowerpot. CONCLUSION Identific...

Prickly pear (Rosa roxburghii Tratt), a shrub mainly distributed in South China, is an economically essential plant for helping the local people out of poverty. To efficiently provide sufficient nutrients to soil ecological cultivation prickly pear, we studied aerobic composting litter with three agents, including AC (Bacillus natto, Bacillus sp., Actinomycetes Saccharomyces Trichoderma Azotoba...

We report here the development, validation, and use of three real-time PCR assays to quantify the abundance of the following three groups of tetracycline resistance genes: tet(A) and tet(C); tet(G); and tet genes encoding ribosomal protection proteins, including tet(M), tet(O), tetB(P), tet(Q), tet(S), tet(T), and tet(W). The assays were validated using known numbers of sample-derived tet gene ...