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Win The Microbe War With Silage Inoculants
2014-11-25 19:39:15| Beef
There’s a war being waged on your operation. And it’s as close as your silage pit. Producing quality silage means winning a war fought on a microscopic level between “armies” of microbes. Inoculants help reinforce the beneficial bacteria in this fight. These products are often lactic acid bacteria (LAB) that provide an efficient front-end fermentation to maintain feed quality and stability. There are many different LAB inoculants to choose from, and growers should select a product that fits: 1. The crop being ensiled, read more
Newly Discovered Microbe Is Key Player In Climate Change
2014-10-24 19:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: As permafrost soils thaw under the influence of global warming, communities of soil microbes act as potent amplifiers of global climate change, an international study has shown. Tiny soil microbes are among the world`s biggest potential amplifiers of human-caused climate change, but whether microbial communities are mere slaves to their environment or influential actors in their own right is an open question. Now, research by an international team of scientists from the US, Sweden and Australia,...
New Methane-Releasing Microbe Key Player in Climate Change
2014-10-23 20:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A new methane-releasing microbe, just recently discovered in Sweden, is a key player in climate change, according to new research. Identified as Methanoflorens stordalenmirensis, it is just one of many species of soil microbes, known to be among the world's biggest potential amplifiers of human-caused climate change. Earlier this year, an international team of researchers discovered this previously unknown microbe living in permafrost soils in northern Sweden that have begun to thaw in our warming...
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MSU bioengineer seeks better microbe threat tests
2014-09-15 00:25:04| Biotech - Topix.net
As the Ebola virus draws the world's attention to the danger of disease spread, a Michigan State University researcher is working to provide better tools to measure the human health risk from microbes and to train researchers in their use. Biosystems engineering professor Jade Mitchell is doing the work with help from a $1 million National Institutes of Health grant The process is called quantitative microbial risk assessment, and Michigan State says it involves four steps to characterizing the human health risk from exposure to various microorganisms.
Methane-spewing microbe blamed in Earth's worst mass extinction
2014-03-31 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A microbe that spewed humongous amounts of methane into Earth's atmosphere triggered a global catastrophe 252 million years ago that wiped out upwards of 90 percent of marine species and 70 percent of land vertebrates. That's the hypothesis offered on Monday by researchers aiming to solve one of science's enduring mysteries: what happened at the end of the Permian period to cause the worst of the five mass extinctions in Earth's history. The scale of this calamity made the one that doomed the...
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