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Microbial starter for the enhancement of biological activity of compost tea.

Compost tea is gaining importance as an alternative to chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The microbial population in the compost tea contributes toward its effectiveness. An attempt was made to enhance the biological activity of compost tea by fortification with microbial substrates. Humic acid a...

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Main Authors: Naidu, Yuvarani, Meon, Sariah, Kadir, Jugah, Siddiqui, Yasmeen
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Published: Friends Science Publishers 2010
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spelling my.upm.eprints.156292015-12-16T08:11:56Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15629/ Microbial starter for the enhancement of biological activity of compost tea. Naidu, Yuvarani Meon, Sariah Kadir, Jugah Siddiqui, Yasmeen Compost tea is gaining importance as an alternative to chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The microbial population in the compost tea contributes toward its effectiveness. An attempt was made to enhance the biological activity of compost tea by fortification with microbial substrates. Humic acid and yeast extract (4:7 w/w 100 g-1 compost) when used as microbial starter during brewing of compost tea significantly (P less than or equal to 0.05) enhanced the microbial population. There was a ten to hundred fold percentage increase for total bacteria, fungi and actinomycetes compared to control. The stability of microbial enriched compost tea was maintained up to four months of storage based on significantly higher number of viable cell counts when compared to compost tea without substrates (control). The viable microbial cell counts over a storage period of six months was 8.5x10(9), 4.6x10(6), 3.5x10(4), 3.9x10(4), 1.4x10(5), 4.8x10(4) and 7.3x10(5) for other bacteria. Friends Science Publishers 2010 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15629/1/Microbial%20starter%20for%20the%20enhancement%20of%20biological%20activity%20of%20compost%20tea.pdf Naidu, Yuvarani and Meon, Sariah and Kadir, Jugah and Siddiqui, Yasmeen (2010) Microbial starter for the enhancement of biological activity of compost tea. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology, 12 (1). pp. 51-56. ISSN 1814–9596 http://www.fspublishers.org English
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description Compost tea is gaining importance as an alternative to chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The microbial population in the compost tea contributes toward its effectiveness. An attempt was made to enhance the biological activity of compost tea by fortification with microbial substrates. Humic acid and yeast extract (4:7 w/w 100 g-1 compost) when used as microbial starter during brewing of compost tea significantly (P less than or equal to 0.05) enhanced the microbial population. There was a ten to hundred fold percentage increase for total bacteria, fungi and actinomycetes compared to control. The stability of microbial enriched compost tea was maintained up to four months of storage based on significantly higher number of viable cell counts when compared to compost tea without substrates (control). The viable microbial cell counts over a storage period of six months was 8.5x10(9), 4.6x10(6), 3.5x10(4), 3.9x10(4), 1.4x10(5), 4.8x10(4) and 7.3x10(5) for other bacteria.
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author Naidu, Yuvarani
Meon, Sariah
Kadir, Jugah
Siddiqui, Yasmeen
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Meon, Sariah
Kadir, Jugah
Siddiqui, Yasmeen
Microbial starter for the enhancement of biological activity of compost tea.
author_facet Naidu, Yuvarani
Meon, Sariah
Kadir, Jugah
Siddiqui, Yasmeen
author_sort Naidu, Yuvarani
title Microbial starter for the enhancement of biological activity of compost tea.
title_short Microbial starter for the enhancement of biological activity of compost tea.
title_full Microbial starter for the enhancement of biological activity of compost tea.
title_fullStr Microbial starter for the enhancement of biological activity of compost tea.
title_full_unstemmed Microbial starter for the enhancement of biological activity of compost tea.
title_sort microbial starter for the enhancement of biological activity of compost tea.
publisher Friends Science Publishers
publishDate 2010
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15629/1/Microbial%20starter%20for%20the%20enhancement%20of%20biological%20activity%20of%20compost%20tea.pdf
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