[{"id":183,"title":"Dinitrogen fixing moderately halo-alkaliphilic microorganisms as a crop productivity enhancer","sha":"99df07358eaec7209e30b842582f3b64","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"Electrical conductivity of Sea water and saline soil is above 4 dS/m (Cox et al., 1970; Sehgal, 1980). The high pH and high salinity reduced metabolic rates of dinitrogen (N2) fixing bacteria which lowered or stopped N2 fixation activity. This indicates that native beneficial microorganisms inhabiting soil either under stress or inhibited. The moderately halo-alkaliphilic microorganisms such as Bacillus (Zehran et al., 2007), Nostoc, Microcystis, Oscillatoria, Anabaena, Synechococcus (Zhang and Feng, 2008), Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus PAL5 (Boniolo et al., 2009), Pseudomonas, Halorhodospira, Ectothiorhodospira, Bradyrhizobium, Agrobacterium, Amorphomonas Azohydromonas, Azospirillum, Ideonella (Yousuf et al., 2014) and Melilotus officinalis having the best growth and proliferation rate and have inherent ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen at varying pH (7-11), moderate salt (5-20%) concentration and electrical conductivity (1.7 and 20 dS/m) (Bruning et al., 2015). These microorganisms have potential applications in agriculture and help to conserve soil texture. Additionally, these microorganisms, improve disease resistance capacity of crop plants. Thus, these promising species can be used for sustainable agriculture in temperate regions and have great importance in the improvement of agriculture yields.","created_at":"2015-06-30T10:13:12.661Z","updated_at":"2015-07-29T16:22:28.943Z","zenodo_id":33874,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19156","subject":null,"tags":["haline niterogen fixer","alkalophilic microorganisms","crop productivity","saline agriculture"],"vote_count":1,"view_count":1,"score":1.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":true,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":184,"title":"Coiling attached with UV source and gas inlet for ballast water treatment: An effective physical method for ballast water treatment","sha":"b4cba8e3a163064e1551eb6077f462d8","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"Ships carry giant volume of ballast water required to sink in Sea. The loading and unloading of ballast water causes negative impact on marine environment. The discharged ballast water typically contains both macroscopic and microscopic plants, animals, bacteria, fungi and viruses. It is mandatory to treat ballast water by eco-friendly means. Biofouling of large macroscopic animals and their invasion is difficult to control. Microbial biofouling can be effectively controlled using physicochemical, physical enhancement and residual control method. Physical measures include UV irradiation, UV + TiO2, deoxygenation, gas injection, ultrasonic treatment, and cavitation. These methods are carried out by using pipes having UV tubes and gas inlet. Because of high speed of pumping water in and out, pathogenic microorganisms either exposed for less time to UV light or the dissolution rate of gas is very less. This problem can be overcome by the use of coiling with UV tubes and gas inlet system and borosilicate UV tubes submerged in the ballast tanks. It increases the exposure of pathogenic microorganisms to UV light and gas for longer period of time. This method is effective in reduction of pathogenic province and may be used as alternative method for the ballast water treatment.","created_at":"2015-07-01T11:56:43.149Z","updated_at":"2015-07-20T09:49:11.543Z","zenodo_id":34019,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19204","subject":null,"tags":["ballast water treatment","cargo","microbial invasion","ballast discharge","open sea"],"vote_count":1,"view_count":1,"score":1.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":true,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":209,"title":"Immobilization and use of pure cultures and microbial consortium isolated from specialized niches for improved crop productivity","sha":"5387495e30493fec826d81f58a973d8f","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"Now a day, sustainable agricultural practice for increased production is most significant concerns. The fertile agricultural land is reducing day by day due to increased population and overburden of excessive use of chemical fertilizer and pesticides. The uses of immobilized pure culture microorganisms and their extremozymes and the microbial consortium have increased demand. It is observed that immobilized microbial pure culture and the microbial consortium have been repeatedly reused and there was no decline in efficiency of immobilized cells. Thus, usage of immobilized microbial pure culture and microbial consortium (such as Burkholderia, Azotobacter, Azospirillium,Pseudomonas, Rhizobium  Bacillus,and Serratia and  Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) like Methylobacterium, Exiguobacterium, Azoarcus, Paenibacillus and Pantoea etc.) isolated from specialized niches may be promising application in agriculture for improved crop productivity.\r\n","created_at":"2015-08-26T17:18:57.184Z","updated_at":"2015-09-01T03:58:32.809Z","zenodo_id":57585,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.29595","subject":null,"tags":["plant productivity","improved agriculture practices","microorganisms isolated from specialized niche","enzymes and metabolites for increased crop productivity","sustainable agriculture"],"vote_count":1,"view_count":1,"score":1.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null}]