Terrestrial crops

Seeds of lettuce and other species have frequently been used to bioassay for the allelopathic activity of plant exudates (17.18.19). As with the use of cell suspensions, there are certain advantages and disadvantages to this methodology. The experimental simplicity, small amounts of material required and short time frame are certainly attractive qualities. However, species used in such bioassays quite often do not represent the actual target species under consideration. This is especially true when terrestrial crop species are substituted for weeds of aquatic systems. Nevertheless, information obtained from such experiments are often valuable when used in conjunction with results of other assays. 

Copper discharges to the global biosphere are due primarily to human activities, especially mining, smelting, and refining copper and the treatment and recycling of municipal and industrial wastes. Some copper compounds, especially copper sulfate, also contribute to environmental copper burdens because they are widely and intensively used in confined geographic areas to control nuisance species of aquatic plants and invertebrates, diseases of terrestrial crop plants, and ectoparasites of fish and livestock. 

Acrolein degrades quickly in soils and in plant tissues, regardless of mode of administration. Most terrestrial crop plants easily tolerate 25,000 pg acrolein/L of irrigation water, and some can tolerate 70,000 to 80,000 pg/L without adverse effects. Terrestrial plants were adversely affected at atmospheric concentrations of 500 pg acrolein/L air, but this concentration exceeds the recommended value of 110 pg/L (0.25 mg/m3) air for protection of human health in occupational settings. 

The town of Exnall sat two hundred and fifty kilometres below the neck of Mortonridge, where the peninsula joined the main body of the continent. It had been founded thirty years ago, and had grown with confidence ever since. The soil around it was rich, the haunt of any number of aboriginal plant species, many of which were edible. Farmers came in the hundreds to cultivate the new species alongside terrestrial crops which thrived in the moist tropical climate. Exnall was a town dominated by agriculture even the light industries attracted by the council produced and serviced farm machinery. 

Anaerobic digestion of manure and high-moisture terrestrial crops to produce IBG and SNG. 

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON THE UPTAKE OF TECHNETIUM-99 TO TERRESTRIAL CROPS... 

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L.W. Ewers, A. Eslava-Gomez and J. Brown, Review of the transfer of Technetium to terrestrial crops and animal products, EiPA-CRCE-025, EiPA, Chilton, UK, 2011. 

E.W. Ewers and J. Brown, Experimental studies on the uptake of Technetium-99 to terrestrial crops, PElE-CRCE-008, PEIE, Chilton, UK, 2013. 

Low water consumption rate microalgae need less water than terrestrial crops, and thus the load on freshwater sources is also reduced (Dismukes et al., 2008). Therefore, algae can be grown in water with different salinity levels, such as wastewater, brackish, or seawater. 

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