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Impact of Bacillus species on Fe reduction of kaolin in bioleaching: surface, structural, and chemical studies
AbstractConventional techniques to remove Fe impurities in kaolin typically involve high environmental impact and cost. Alternative methods have been...
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Effect of nitrogen reduction by chemical fertilization with green manure (Vicia sativa L.) on soil microbial community, nitrogen metabolism and and yield of Uncaria rhynchophylla by metagenomics
Uncaria rhynchophylla is an important herbal medicine, and the predominant issues affecting its cultivation include a single method of fertilizer...
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Chemical fertilizer reduction with organic material amendments alters co-occurrence network patterns of bacterium-fungus-nematode communities under the wheat–maize rotation regime
PurposeDeciphering the succession patterns of soil bacterium-fungus-nematode communities and functions in agroecosystems is one of the most important...
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Enzymes in the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry
Enzymes are used today in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry to produce a wide range of products. In this chapter, you will be introduced to...
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Chemical Changes During Physical Treatments
Physical treatments generally induce changes only in the packing arrangements of starch polymer molecules within granules. However, some physical...
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Size Reduction
In this chapter, the mechanism and factors affecting size reduction process and the laws governing these operations are discussed. Size reduction is...
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Effect of Environmental Factors on Essential Oil Biosynthesis, Chemical Stability, and Yields
Essential oils are major secondary metabolites of aromatic plants and composed of complex mixture of terpenoids and phenylpropanoids components....
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Efficiency of working coveralls and chemical resistant gloves in reducing operator exposure to pesticides
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is used to reduce exposure when working with chemicals. For pesticides, exposure scenarios comprise mixing and...
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Organic Carbon Quality Impacts Benthic Microbial Nitrate Reduction
Microbial nitrate reduction in wetland soils and sediments plays an important role mitigating the excess of nitrogen released into the environment....
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Chemical Ecology and Biochemistry of Dytiscidae
The chapter deals with chemical mechanisms that help to control intra- und inter-specific interactions with respect to predaceous diving beetles....
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Chemical Mutagenesis of Mature Seed of Coffea arabica L. var. Venecia Using EMS
Chemical mutagens are a major tool to generate novel genetic variation in crops, functional genomics and breeding. They are advantageous because they...
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Chemical Composition of Foods
The chemical composition of any food product is important since it determines the reactants available for the chemical transformation that ultimately...
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Evolution of Disaster Risk Reduction Systems in India
India has always been vulnerable to different hazards due its diverse geographic and climatic condition. In its initial years, disaster management in...
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Chemical compounds of a Neotropical plant constrain the anti-predator behaviour of sympatric tadpoles
The capacity to identify predator chemical cues is extremely advantageous as it allows prey to avoid the predation sequence from the beginning....
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Physical and Chemical Characteristics of Salt-Affected Soils in India
Understanding on physical and chemical properties of salt-affected soils (SAS) is imperative for planning and executing reclamation programs and...
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Climate Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Integration through Environmental Legislation in India
Inter-linkages between disasters, environmental degradation, and climatic changes are well recognised as well as linking disaster risk reduction with...
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High-throughput characterization of bacterial responses to complex mixtures of chemical pollutants
Our understanding of how microbes respond to micropollutants, such as pesticides, is almost wholly based on single-species responses to individual...
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Non-chemical management of termite pests: An overview
Termites or white ants are comparatively a small group of social insects. Besides their usefulness, termites cause significant economic loss to both...
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Chemical Components of Chinese Baijiu
Chinese baijiu has a long history of more than 2000 years and is currently among the most consumed liquors in the world. Its long history, rich...
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Microbial and chemical fertilizers for restoring degraded alpine grassland
On the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the restoration of natural grasslands is an urgent task, but finding the appropriate green restoration approach still...
