Sentences with phrase «microbial responses»

Inhibitors degradation and microbial response during continuous anaerobic conversion of hydrothermal liquefaction wastewater — Buchun Sia — Science of The Total Environment

Inulin stimulates almost the exact same microbial response as potato starch.

«Metabolism slows by about a factor of two or three for every 10 degrees Celsius you drop in temperature,» notes biogeochemist David Valentine of the University of California, Santa Barbara, who is studying the microbial response to the oil spill.

When the Colorado potato beetle — which likes potato plants, but will eat all the plants in the nightshade family — regurgitates its stomach contents onto a leaf, the bacteria from the beetle's gut triggers the plant's microbial response, but turns off the plant's response to chewing.

Global simulations conducted by the team found that microbial responses to enhanced root activity under rising CO2, while depending on plant species, climate and soil mineralogy, led to a loss of global soil carbon stocks that counteracted the additional carbon storage resulting from increased plant growth in many regions of the world.

«The microbiology is very convincing,» but the extrapolation to the rate of hydrocarbon consumption «is potentially flawed and gives the wrong impression,» says biogeochemist David Valentine of the University of California, Santa Barbara, who is also attempting to characterize the microbial response to the oil spewing from BP's Macondo 252 well in the Gulf of Mexico.