Sentence examples for microbial breakdown and from inspiring English sources

Therefore, frequent monitoring and adjustments of nutrient content are a precondition for optimal microbial breakdown and a satisfactory long-term performance of such treatment systems.

Metsulfuron-methyl is considered to have high soil activity and a soil half-life that varies between 5 and 63 days (Ismail and Lee 1995; Günther et al. 1989; Trabue et al. 2006), with the principal modes of degradation being microbial breakdown and chemical hydrolysis (Beyer et al. 1987).

The reaction catalysed by PHBH, an electrophilic aromatic substitution involving a hydroperoxyflavin cofactor, is important in the microbial breakdown of aromatic pollutants and lignin from wood.

Natural gas in the subsurface can be both microbial in origin, that is, formed from the microbial breakdown of organic material, and thermogenic in origin, that is, formed from the abiotic degradation of organic material in formations under high temperatures and pressures at depth.

Hence there is a possibility of rhizosphere-specific microbial breakdown in the rhizosphere of lettuce and littleseed canarygrass.

This was due to the slower microbial breakdown of TPSF leaves resulting from their increased toughness and high levels of phenolic compounds.

The accessibility of all cell-wall components i.e. cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin and lignin, is strongly limited by the covalent cross-linkages of the constituents which create an intricate network and a physical barrier that resists microbial breakdown.

These hydrophobic moieties could be responsible for the maintenance of an unstable carbon reservoir formed by predominating alkyl-C and lignin-deriving compounds which was still subjected to microbial breakdown.

Some 145 million tons of waste, from the Truman-era primordial muck at the marshy bottom to more recognizable castoffs of the early Bush years, will traverse the sludgy slope to decomposition, an unseen simmer of microbial breakdown.

The plants accumulate these nutrients and redeposit them on the soil surface in organic matter from which nutrients are much more readily available by microbial breakdown (Li 2006; Conesa et al. 2007a).

The reduced protein production levels in BG-grown culture extract as compared to RS-grown culture extract could be due to high lignin content in BG biomass which has high recalcitrance towards microbial breakdown.