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Sheet Mulching for the Home Garden
Another appeal is that the system is tool-free and ... fine dark soil. By the end of the first summer, the soil is revolutionised, and will contain hundreds of worms and soil bacteria. ... - blight or cinnamon fungus) is discussed. Litter and mulch preserve soil organisms, and the steady temperature and moisture conditions which ...
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About Methane
(OH) radicals is the dominant sink for atmospheric methane. With stratospheric destruction and oxidation by soil bacteria, the total sink for methane is estimated to be between 500 and 600 million tonnes ...
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Biotechnology
The novel genes will also be taken up by soil bacteria, that taken up and exchange genetic material. This means that even GE plants that do ... spread genetic pollution. There is very little understanding about microbial populations, less than 1% of soil bacteria have been characterised to date. There are many more unanswered questions about the serious risks ...
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Genetically Engineered Crops - A Threat to Soil Fertility? (Non-technical condensate)
An interdisciplinary group of scientific experts has advanced the hypothesis that these vectors from GE crops might promote transfer of DNA between unrelated soil microorganism species ...
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Genetically Engineered Crops - A Threat to Soil Fertility?
They warn that the vector DNA may be transferred from GE plants to soil bacteria and soil ... transferred from the GM sugar beet plant debris to bacteria in the soil (Gebhard F and Smalla K.1999). Transfer to soil bacteria was also observed by Schluter et al 1995. Despite ...
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Down On The Farm? Yields, Nutrients And Soil Quality
Nitrogen fixing is the process by which nitrogen in its molecular form (N2) is ... to poor soil quality, explains Fox, because it strips the soil of nitrogen and phosphorus, interrupts root structures, and upsets nitrogen-fixing bacteria. In fact, farming methods and poor soil quality have ...
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Amoebae-Associated Bacteria in Biodegradation and Bioremediation
Amoebae-Associated Bacteria in Biodegradation and Bioremediation An electron micrograph of amoebae. Amoebae can protect bacteria from environmental pollutants. Are there ... bacteria have shown unusual desorbing and degradative capabilities upon interaction with a variety of environmental contaminants, including the destruction of TCE and desorption of mercury from soil ...
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CO2 sinks - Soil
During this decomposition some of the carbon in soil detritus is respired by the decomposing organisms (often fungi and bacteria), with the carbon being returned to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. The rest of the detritus carbon can be converted into 'modified soil carbon' which decomposes ...
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Soil Remediation Products from Marine Environmental Management
Email MEM Liquid Remediact Product 1902 is a newly developed product created to solve soil and water hydrocarbon contamination problems. Liquid Remediact has the ability to bio-remediate most ... all other products is the concentration of live synergistic bacteria, in a remediation liquid, that quickly starts the bio-remediation process. Remediact (Soil Formula) This is a dry compound formulation of ...
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What on Earth is Soil? | Kid's Stuff | Educator and Student Resources | Gulf of Mexico Program | US EPA
Stuff What on Earth is Soil? What on Earth is Soil? Soil makes up the outermost layer of our planet. Topsoil is the most productive soil layer. Soil has varying amounts of organic matter ... clay, give soil its texture. Fungi and bacteria help break down organic matter in the soil. Plant roots and lichens break up rocks which become part of new soil. Roots loosen the soil, allowing oxygen ...
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