Q: My neighbor recently told me that the secret to his lush lawn and thriving vegetable garden is humus. What is humus, what’s it made of, and where can I get it? A: The definition of humus explains ...

In this present study, catechol was added to promote humus formation in chicken manure composting using 12.5-L working volume lab-scale reactors. Chicken manure composting were carried out on two ...

Microbial shikimic acid is an important intermediate metabolite in the synthesis of aromatic amino acids which are precursors for forming humus during composting process. Generally, the pathways ...

This news release is available in German. The yields of many important crops in Europe have been stagnating since the 1990s. As a result, the input of organic matter into the soil - the crucial source ...

Last week, I mentioned how humus formation depended on nitrogen (N). Even when a large quantity of organic matter is present, very little humus can be created if the nitrogen level is too low. The ...

According to one theory, litter decomposes to a “limit value,” and recalcitrant residues that cannot decompose are polymerized into humus. As a result, humus is thought to collect at the end of the ...

1. The evolution of ideas on raw humus formation is briefly reviewed. 2. It is shown experimentally that mixtures of the litters of Spruce and Hazel, Spruce and Hornbeam, and Spruce and Epilobium ...

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1 Agricultural Sciences, Cotton Breeding, Seed Production and Agrotechnologies Research Institute, Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan. 2 Philosophy of Agricultural Science, Cotton Breeding, Seed ...

ABSTRACT: Myxomycete assemblages were compared on various leaf litters of different vegetation types in a local mixed forest consisting of deciduous and evergreen trees in western Japan. A total of 33 ...