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  1. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a plant growth-promoter. This bacterium is also implicated in human diseases. Thus, after the use of this bacterium in agriculture, the safety of the fi...

    Authors: Alessandro Miceli, Alessandra Martorana, Giancarlo Moschetti and Luca Settanni
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:24
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  2. A waste of the rice production chain, namely bran, can be used to produce an oil with a very high content in free fatty acids (FFA). Due to its very high acidity, this material cannot be used neither to feed p...

    Authors: Federica Zaccheria, Matteo Mariani and Nicoletta Ravasio
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:23
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  4. The objective of this research was to evaluate, in saline-sodic soils, the effect of the application of a low rank coal (LRC), lignite type, along with an inoculation of bacteria that release humified organic ...

    Authors: Juan Guillermo Cubillos-Hinojosa, Nelson Osvaldo Valero and Luz Marina Melgarejo
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:21
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  6. Supplement with inorganic N application is essential to improve the common bean production in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the influence of indigenous rhizobial population on the inorganic N requirement with Rhiz...

    Authors: Anteneh Argaw and Angaw Tsigie
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:19
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  7. The study of clay fractions is usually focused on water-dispersible clay (WDC), which is a good indicator of many soil processes involving water (water erosion, transfer and removal of nutrients and contaminan...

    Authors: Lira A. Matiushkina and Galina V. Kharitonova
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:18
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  8. Negentropy and entropy fluctuations, which are concepts of out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics, were considered in the development of a simple potentiometric titration method for the study of natural complex sys...

    Authors: Vicente Rodrigues de Almeida and Bruno Szpoganicz
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:17
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:22

  9. Humic substances are considered to be composed of relatively small, heterogeneous molecules bound by weak linkages. The dissociation of acid-soluble constituents from soil humic acids (HAs) during the preparat...

    Authors: Masakazu Aoyama
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:16
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  11. The change in the optical parameters of dissolved organic matter (DOM) from natural water samples of Pirita River in Estonia were studied during 2 years of winter–spring season. At present, the relative quanti...

    Authors: Viia Lepane, Laura Depret, Anna-Liisa Väli and Kristel Suursööt
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:14
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  12. The aim of the present work was to investigate the effect of early leaf removal and cluster thinning treatments in the Mediterranean climate on berry growth and how these two techniques affect phenolic profile...

    Authors: Marina Bogicevic, Vesna Maras, Milena Mugoša, Vesna Kodžulović, Jovana Raičević, Sanja Šućur and Osvaldo Failla
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:13
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  13. Chemical composition of soybean grain may be modified by application of foliar fertilizers. The aim of this study was to test the effect of different organo-mineral foliar fertilizers: Zlatno inje, Bioplant Fl...

    Authors: Vesna Dragičević, Bogdan Nikolić, Hadi Waisi, Milovan Stojiljković, Sanja Đurović, Igor Spasojević and Vesna Perić
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:12
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  14. World demand for agricultural products is increasing. New insights are required in order to achieve sufficient and sustainable yields to meet global food request. Chemical fertilizers have been studied for alm...

    Authors: Andrea Ertani, Paolo Sambo, Carlo Nicoletto, Silvia Santagata, Michela Schiavon and Serenella Nardi
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:11
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  15. Water stress is one of the most adverse conditions that may affect growth, and synthesis of essential oils in aromatic and medicinal plants. To overcome these climatic conditions, mycorrhiza is an adaptation s...

    Authors: Zakaria Hazzoumi, Youssef Moustakime, El hassan Elharchli and Khalid Amrani Joutei
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:10
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  16. Humic substances are ubiquitous in the environment, complex mixtures, and known to be beneficial to plant growth. To better understand and identify components responsible for plant growth stimulation, a terres...

    Authors: Rachel L Sleighter, Paolo Caricasole, Kristen M Richards, Terry Hanson and Patrick G Hatcher
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:9
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  17. Banana plantations are affected by environmental factors such as chilling injury, which reduces the quality of fruits and causes losses of up to 50% in the yield of banana and it will be more important in term...

    Authors: Luis C Rodríguez-Zapata, Francisco L Espadas y Gil, Susana Cruz-Martínez, Carlos R Talavera-May, Fernando Contreras-Marin, Gabriela Fuentes, Enrique Sauri-Duch and Jorge M Santamaría
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:8
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  18. Liquid-state 31P-NMR spectroscopy becomes progressively an important role for studying phosphorus (P) dynamics in soil. Soils of different origin and organic matter content were used to optimize sample preparatio...

    Authors: Meng Li, Pierluigi Mazzei, Vincenza Cozzolino, Hiarhi Monda, Zhengyi Hu and Alessandro Piccolo
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:7
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  19. An addition of rumen-protected fat to the diet of cows may limit negative energy balance and/or shorten its duration, leading to increased milk production with reduced risk of metabolic disorders in dairy cows...

    Authors: Danijela Kirovski, Bojan Blond, Marko Katić, Radmila Marković and Dragan Šefer
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:6
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  20. The effects of a humic substance (HS) extracted from a volcanic soil on the nitrate assimilation pathway of Zea mays seedlings were thoroughly examined using physiological and molecular approaches. Plant growth, ...

    Authors: Silvia Vaccaro, Andrea Ertani, Antonio Nebbioso, Adele Muscolo, Silvia Quaggiotti, Alessandro Piccolo and Serenella Nardi
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:5
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  21. The use of compost may relieve the factors that limit productivity in intensive agricultural systems, such as soil organic matter depletion and soil sickness. Concomitantly, the practice of on-farm composting ...

    Authors: Catello Pane, Giuseppe Celano, Alessandro Piccolo, Domenica Villecco, Riccardo Spaccini, Assunta M Palese and Massimo Zaccardelli
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:4
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  22. The humic acid (HA) fraction of soil organic matter (SOM) exerts an effective plant growth promotion through a complex mechanism involving a coordinated activation of several key ion transport and signaling sy...

    Authors: Alessandro C Ramos, Leonardo B Dobbss, Leandro A Santos, Mânlio S Fernandes, Fábio L Olivares, Natália O Aguiar and Luciano P Canellas
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:3
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  23. Chickpea and peanut are two legume species not frequently used in human diets. Chickpea is rich in starch and proteins, while peanut is mainly a source of oils and proteins and they could be successfully used ...

    Authors: Vesna Dragičević, Suzana Kratovalieva, Zoran Dumanović, Zoran Dimov and Natalija Kravić
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:2
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  25. Humeomics is a sequential step-wise chemical fractionation that simplifies the complex matrix of a humic acid (HA) and weakens its supramolecular interactions, thereby allowing a detailed characterization of t...

    Authors: Antonio Nebbioso, Pierluigi Mazzei and Davide Savy
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:24
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  26. Brazil has 8.51 million km2 of territorial area and a tropical climate. In 2010, the occupation of the Brazilian soil consists of 20.8% pasture, 6.8% agriculture, 0.8% forested areas, 61.0% natural forests, and 9...

    Authors: Jorge L Colodette, Claudia M Gomes, Fernando J Gomes and Carla P Cabral
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:25
    Content type: Review Published on:

  27. Co-inoculation of maize with Herbaspirillum seropedicae and humic substances increases the sizes of plant-associated bacterial populations and enhances grain yields under laboratory and field conditions. Root exu...

    Authors: Lívia da Silva Lima, Fábio Lopes Olivares, Rodrigo Rodrigues de Oliveira, Maria Raquel Garcia Vega, Natália Oliveira Aguiar and Luciano Pasqualoto Canellas
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:23
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  28. Metabolomics, which represents all the low molecular weight compounds present in a cell or organism in a particular physiological condition, has multiple applications, from phenotyping and diagnostic analysis ...

    Authors: Patricia V Abdelnur, Camila Caldana and Marina C M Martins
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:22
    Content type: Review Published on:

  30. This paper studies the biobased industry evolution as an innovation process, as this approach allows us to widen the current perspective of most literature in this field, by offering insights into the current ...

    Authors: Jose Vitor Bomtempo and Flávia Chaves Alves
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:19
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  31. Recently, a novel concept ‘bio-effectors’ rose on to describe a group of products that are able to improve plant performance rather than fertilizers. Agro-food processing residues and by-products potentially r...

    Authors: Ziad Al Chami, Deaa Alwanney, Sandra Angelica De Pascali, Ivana Cavoski and Francesco Paolo Fanizzi
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:17
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  32. The last century was the scene of an extraordinary social and economic development of mankind. This development had the fossil energy as one of its pillars. The discovery of petrol led the society to shape a d...

    Authors: Osmar V Carvalho-Netto, Jose A Bressiani, Hugo L Soriano, Celso S Fiori, Joao M Santos, Geraldo VS Barbosa, Mauro A Xavier, Marcos GA Landell and Goncalo AG Pereira
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:20
    Content type: Review Published on:

  33. Ashes from sugarcane were analyzed by X-ray fluorescence, ash content, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). FactSage 6.4 database software was used t...

    Authors: Catia Fredericci, Gerhard Ett, Guilherme FB Lenz e Silva, João B Ferreira Neto, Fernando JG Landgraf, Ricardo L Indelicato and Tiago R Ribeiro
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:15
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  34. Review summarizes both literature and own experimental data on the application of arachidonic acid (AA, C20:4 omega-6) as an elicitor of the plant defense reactions to phytopathogens. The elicitation activity of ...

    Authors: Emiliya G Dedyukhina, Svetlana V Kamzolova and Mikhail B Vainshtein
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:18
    Content type: Review Published on:

  35. The human evolution is directly associated to the use of materials. During the last century, humanity had significant development powered by the use of fossil resources, which largely impacted the materials di...

    Authors: Leonardo F Valadares
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:16
    Content type: Review Published on:

  36. During the last decade, the use of plant-root colonizing bacteria with plant growth-promoting activity has been proven as an efficient and environmental-friendly alternative to chemical pesticides and fertiliz...

    Authors: Jun-Qing Qiao, Hui-Jun Wu, Rong Huo, Xue-Wen Gao and Rainer Borriss
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:12
    Content type: Review Published on:

  37. The biodiversity of Brazil contains an extraordinary number of compounds from natural products with a wide and complex variety of molecular structures, therefore representing an economic potential in biomasses...

    Authors: Viviane Cândida da Silva and Clenilson Martins Rodrigues
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:14
    Content type: Review Published on:

  38. Humic substances (HS) are complex mixtures of natural organic material which are found almost everywhere in the environment, and particularly in soils, sediments, and natural water. HS play key roles in many p...

    Authors: Mario Orsi
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:10
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  39. Renewables are 46% in the Brazilian energy matrix, while the world scenario differs from this context to use only 13% of these resources. The biomass conversion using bioprocess has great potential to be appli...

    Authors: Monica Caramez Triches Damaso, Cristina Maria Monteiro Machado, Dasciana de Sousa Rodrigues, Silvia Goncalves Belem and Thais Fabiana Chan Salum
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:6
    Content type: Review Published on:

  41. This review describes how to apply green chemistry principles to transform biomass into several types of molecules. On the basis of selected papers published over the last three to four years, it includes the ...

    Authors: Paulo M Donate
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:4
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  42. According to estimates from the International Energy Agency, global energy consumption will increase by at least one third, between 2010 and 2035. The additional power required will be provided not only by fos...

    Authors: Emerson Léo Schultz, Daniela Tatiane de Souza and Mônica Caramez Triches Damaso
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:7
    Content type: Review Published on:

  43. In this manuscript, we report the isolation and characterization of two secondary metabolites produced by a Gnomoniopsis castanea strain isolated in the Campania region (Italy) from chestnut galls infested with D...

    Authors: Francesco Vinale, Michelina Ruocco, Gelsomina Manganiello, Emilio Guerrieri, Umberto Bernardo, Pierluigi Mazzei, Alessandro Piccolo, Filomena Sannino, Simonetta Caira, Sheridan L Woo and Matteo Lorito
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:8
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  44. There is a pressing need for renewable and optimal use of resources towards sustainable primary production and processing systems worldwide. Current technologies for food and feedstock production are held acco...

    Authors: Bruno Perlatti, Moacir R Forim and Vânia G Zuin
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:5
    Content type: Review Published on:

  45. Humic acids (HA) are organic molecules with complex structure and function and variable properties. They are insoluble in strongly acid pH conditions. At present, it is not clear how much is the amount of HA i...

    Authors: Andrea Baglieri, Daniela Vindrola, Mara Gennari and Michèle Negre
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:9
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  46. Humic substances (HS) have been widely recognized as a plant growth promoter mainly by changes on root architecture and growth dynamics, which result in increased root size, branching and/or greater density of...

    Authors: Luciano P Canellas and Fábio L Olivares
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:3
    Content type: Review Published on:

  47. The influence of pH on the formation of host-guest complexes between the cucurbit[7]uril (CB[7]) macrocyclic host and three auxin plant hormones, namely indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), 2-naphthalene acetic acid (2...

    Authors: Assunta Nuzzo, Oren A Scherman, Pierluigi Mazzei and Alessandro Piccolo
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:2
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  48. Authors: Alessandro Piccolo
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2014 1:1
    Content type: Editorial Published on:
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