They are waiting on lab results of
the soil tests which are expected soon.
There is a renewed interest in
soil tests which look for the nutrients which are not in plant usable form... on the theory that if you have enough microbes they will convert the unusable nutrient into plant usable form.
Not exact matches
Transmitted through both
soil and water, F. oxysporum can lay dormant in the
soil for up to 30 years, and it's virtually impossible for growers to know their crops have it without rigorous
testing (
which doesn't exist).
Don't allow religious philosophy to intrude into biology classrooms and texts, they say, for that is to
soil the sacred precincts of science,
which must be reserved for hypotheses that can be rigorously
tested and confronted with data.
This is a specific incident, in a small location, on British
soil,
which can be
tested domestically by world - class analysts.
The nuclear treaty will see the establishment of two shared research facilities, one on French and one on British
soil,
which will enable components of the two countries» nuclear warheads to be
tested under extremes of temperature and pressure.
Fox's research, funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA, was designed to
test his theory that rubber trees,
which are exotics from the South America, differ from native vegetation in that they suck up most of their water when the
soil is the driest at the beginning of the monsoon season.
This final number lies below earlier estimates from atmospheric
tests and above land - based figures,
which did not take into account such carbon sinks as woody debris, forest litter and
soil.
Bringing together observed and simulated measurements on ocean temperatures, atmospheric pressure, water
soil and wildfire occurrences, the researchers have a powerful tool in their hands,
which they are willing to
test in other regions of the world: «Using the same climate model configuration, we will also study the
soil water and fire risk predictability in other parts of our world, such as the Mediterranean, Australia or parts of Asia,» concludes Timmermann.
They sent
soil samples for DNA
testing, looking for matches with particular genes known to be found in microbes and fungi; they tried to stimulate microbial growth on a wide variety of substances and then count the cells produced; and they used highly sensitive radiorespiration activity assays,
which involve feeding the
soil microorganisms a food source
which has been labelled with radioactive carbon,
which can then be used to detect if the microorganisms are active.
The researchers
tested a variety of solutions containing the
soil bacteria Geobacter sulfurreducens and Thiobacillus denitrificans,
which thrive by eating acetate (an organic compound that makes vinegar sour) and nitrate (a negatively - charged molecule of biologically available nitrogen and oxygen), respectively, when they can find a spare electron or two.
It is intriguing that MECA could have found anything more positive than that, but NASA and the University of Arizona are taking steps to prevent word from leaking out on the nature of the discovery made during MECA's second
soil test, in
which water from Earth was automatically stirred with Martian
soil.
«The
soils we
tested are representative of the semi-arid
soils on
which guar is produced around the world.
Car
tested: 2011 Skoda Fabia 1.2 TDi Price OTR Mumbai: 7,62,296 / - Skoda Auto landed on Indian
soil in late 2001 and the first car to come out of their stable was the Octavia
which was an instant hit.
This is the first time a BMW - group model
which is yet - to - be-revealed globally, been spotted on
test on Indian
soil.
Radon is an odorless gas naturally occurring in the
soil, and is the second leading cause of lung cancer — behind smoking.BPG adheres to strict protocols and standards for
testing,
which can usually be combined with a home inspection.
Test products on an inconspicuous area first and clean a sufficiently large area to remove the odor,
which may be up to three times the size of the
soiled area.
To
test their hypothesis, the three scientists conducted a meta - analysis that included 1705 field measurements from 21 distinct sites from
which they evaluated the effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment on
soil water content in both dryland and non-dryland systems.
The results of a
test on greywater to see
which type of cleaning products had the most effect on water an and
soil (the full report on'the impact of soaps and shampoos on
soil» is available online.)