scholarly journals Growth and composition of sugarcane and chemical attributes of the soil by fertilizing with different levels of cow manure

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (40) ◽  
pp. 3984-3990
Author(s):  
Guimaraes Geicimara ◽  
de Paula Lana Rogerio ◽  
Claudia Rodrigues Rosane ◽  
Mattos Veloso Cristina ◽  
de Souza Reis Renata ◽  
...  
2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Glauce Taís de Oliveira Sousa Azevedo ◽  
Anderson Marcos de Souza ◽  
Gileno Brito de Azevedo ◽  
Paulo Eduardo Teodoro ◽  
José Raimundo Luduvico de Sousa

The incorporation of the hydrogel into the substrate used in the forest nursery promotes improvements in its physical-chemical attributes. However, several factors influence the hydrogel efficiency, such as the increase of salts, promoted by fertilizer of the substrate. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the effects of the incorporation of fertilizer levels and hydrogel doses on the physical-chemical attributes of a substrate to produce forest seedlings. Different levels of basic fertilizer commonly used in the nursery (100%, 50% and 0%) and different doses of the hydrogel (0, 1, 2 and 3 g L-1) were incorporated into the substrate Tropstrato Florestal®, consisting of 12 treatments in a 3 x 4 factorial scheme. A sample of the substrate in each treatment was sent for analysis of its physical and chemical attributes. To evaluate the effect of the treatments on the physical-chemical attributes of the substrate, was used the multivariate principal components analyses. The levels of fertilizer and hydrogel doses were correlated with the attributes of the substrates obtained in each treatment. The incorporation of different fertilizer levels and hydrogel doses to the substrate modified their chemical and physical attributes. Fertilizers have influenced mainly the chemical attributes of the substrate, whereas hydrogels have influenced the physical attributes, mainly those related to water retention capacity and availability.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuhua Zhang ◽  
Manli Duan ◽  
Beibei Zhou ◽  
Quanjiu Wang ◽  
Zhenshi Zhang ◽  
...  

Abstract New sugar source, manno-oligosaccharide, can regulate the structure of microbes. The effects of adding manno-oligosaccharide at four different levels (0, 0.1%, 0.5%, and 1% w/w compost) to cow manure–straw compost on the composting process, degradation of lignocellulose, and bacterial community in this study was investigated. The results showed that adding 0.5% manno-oligosaccharide had the greatest effects on accelerating the composting process, reducing the toxicity, and improving the stability of the product. After composting for 25 days, 0.5% oligosaccharide treatment can decrease the hemicellulose, cellulose, and lignin contents to 2.25%, 11.25%, and 7.07% respectively, compared with CK. Manno-oligosaccharide affected the distribution of the bacterial community, inhibited pathogenic bacteria, and improved the abundance of functional genes. Finally, adding 0.5% manno-oligosaccharide mainly affected the degradation of lignocellulose by enhancing the C/N value and the abundances of Streptomyces and the secretion system during composting was demonstrated by redundancy analysis.


2021 ◽  
pp. 329-338
Author(s):  
Marcos Renan Besen ◽  
Bruno Maia Abdo Rahmen Cassim ◽  
Vitor Rodrigues Cordioli ◽  
Lucas Simas de Oliveira Moreira ◽  
Tadeu Takeyoshi Inoue ◽  
...  

The lime (L) and phosphogypsum (G) promote changes in the chemical attributes of the soil that can alter the development of corn. The objective was to evaluate morphological and yield components of corn after liming and G and to correlate them with yield. The treatments consisted of a 2 x 4 + 3 factorial, with two methods of application of L: surface (SL) and incorporated (IL) to obtain different levels of base saturation (BS): 44, 60, 70 and 90%. Three additional treatments were evaluated involving the use of L and G applied on the surface, being: BS 60% + 3.71 Mg ha-1 of G (60G50); BS 70% + 3.71 Mg ha-1 of G (70G50) and BS 70% + 7.42 Mg ha-1 of G (70G100). Plant height (PH), ear insertion height (EIH) and stem diameter (SD) were not influenced by the treatments. The SL increased the length of the ear (LE), number of grains per row (NGR) and mass of a thousand grains (TMG) up to BS of 72, 80 and 72%, respectively. Thus, there were no advantages of higher base saturation (BS 90%). The combination of L and G promoted improvements in ear diameter (ED), NGF, LE, TMG. The yield in IL was 445 kg ha-1 higher than SL, however when combining G and L the production increased 6 to 12% in relation to BS 44% SL. BS% levels in IL did not influence any response variable. Grain yield was positively correlated to ED, TMG, LE and PH.


Author(s):  
J. E. Doherty ◽  
A. F. Giamei ◽  
B. H. Kear ◽  
C. W. Steinke

Recently we have been investigating a class of nickel-base superalloys which possess substantial room temperature ductility. This improvement in ductility is directly related to improvements in grain boundary strength due to increased boundary cohesion through control of detrimental impurities and improved boundary shear strength by controlled grain boundary micros true tures.For these investigations an experimental nickel-base superalloy was doped with different levels of sulphur impurity. The micros tructure after a heat treatment of 1360°C for 2 hr, 1200°C for 16 hr consists of coherent precipitates of γ’ Ni3(Al,X) in a nickel solid solution matrix.


Author(s):  
M. Kraemer ◽  
J. Foucrier ◽  
J. Vassy ◽  
M.T. Chalumeau

Some authors using immunofluorescent techniques had already suggested that some hepatocytes are able to synthetize several plasma proteins. In vitro studies on normal cells or on cells issued of murine hepatomas raise the same conclusion. These works could be indications of an hepatocyte functionnal non-specialization, meanwhile the authors never give direct topographic proofs suitable with this hypothesis.The use of immunoenzymatic techniques after obtention of monospecific antisera had seemed to us useful to bring forward a better knowledge of this problem. We have studied three carrier proteins (transferrin = Tf, hemopexin = Hx, albumin = Alb) operating at different levels in iron metabolism by demonstrating and localizing the adult rat hepatocytes involved in their synthesis.Immunological, histological and ultrastructural methods have been described in a previous work.


2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 304-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars-Göran Nilsson

This paper presents four domains of markers that have been found to predict later cognitive impairment and neurodegenerative disease. These four domains are (1) data patterns of memory performance, (2) cardiovascular factors, (3) genetic markers, and (4) brain activity. The critical features of each domain are illustrated with data from the longitudinal Betula Study on memory, aging, and health ( Nilsson et al., 1997 ; Nilsson et al., 2004 ). Up to now, early signs regarding these domains have been examined one by one and it has been found that they are associated with later cognitive impairment and neurodegenerative disease. However, it was also found that each marker accounts for only a very small part of the total variance, implying that single markers should not be used as predictors for cognitive decline or neurodegenerative disease. It is discussed whether modeling and simulations should be used as tools to combine markers at different levels to increase the amount of explained variance.


Methodology ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 142-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pere J. Ferrando

In the IRT person-fluctuation model, the individual trait levels fluctuate within a single test administration whereas the items have fixed locations. This article studies the relations between the person and item parameters of this model and two central properties of item and test scores: temporal stability and external validity. For temporal stability, formulas are derived for predicting and interpreting item response changes in a test-retest situation on the basis of the individual fluctuations. As for validity, formulas are derived for obtaining disattenuated estimates and for predicting changes in validity in groups with different levels of fluctuation. These latter formulas are related to previous research in the person-fit domain. The results obtained and the relations discussed are illustrated with an empirical example.


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