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View article: Biochar for Soil Amendment: Applications, Benefits, and Environmental Impacts
Biochar for Soil Amendment: Applications, Benefits, and Environmental Impacts Open
The excessive use of chemical fertilizers results in environmental issues, including loss of soil fertility, eutrophication, increased soil acidity, alterations in soil characteristics, and disrupted plant–microbe symbiosis. Here, we synth…
View article: Harnessing Physics to Solve Real-World Problems: Sustainable and Practical Approaches
Harnessing Physics to Solve Real-World Problems: Sustainable and Practical Approaches Open
This study examines creative implementations of core physics principles to tackle significant societal issues through accessible, low-cost, and sustainable approaches. Utilizing fundamental concepts such as the Doppler Effect, thermodynami…
View article: The Bioremediation of Nutrients and Heavy Metals in Watersheds: The Role of Floating Treatment Wetlands
The Bioremediation of Nutrients and Heavy Metals in Watersheds: The Role of Floating Treatment Wetlands Open
Floating treatment wetlands (FTWs) are engineered systems that utilize floating platforms planted with aquatic vegetation to treat polluted water such as stormwater, agricultural runoff, and wastewater. FTWs have emerged as promising and e…
View article: Bioremediation of Nutrients and Heavy Metals in Watersheds: The Role of Floating Treatment Wetlands
Bioremediation of Nutrients and Heavy Metals in Watersheds: The Role of Floating Treatment Wetlands Open
Floating treatment wetlands (FTWs) are engineered systems that use floating platforms planted with aquatic vegetation to treat polluted water such as stormwater, agricultural runoff and wastewater. FTWs have emerged as promising and enviro…
View article: Utilizing brown mushroom stem waste as an eco-friendly alternative to soybean meal in layer chick nutrition
Utilizing brown mushroom stem waste as an eco-friendly alternative to soybean meal in layer chick nutrition Open
Objectives This study evaluated the potential of brown mushroom stem (BMS) powder as a sustainable feed ingredient in poultry diets by assessing its effects on growth performance, health status, and environmental impact. Specifically, the …
View article: Utilizing white mushroom stem powder as a sustainable substitute for soybean meal in layer chick diets
Utilizing white mushroom stem powder as a sustainable substitute for soybean meal in layer chick diets Open
View article: 54 Evaluating white mushroom stem as a sustainable alternative to soybean meal in poultry nutrition
54 Evaluating white mushroom stem as a sustainable alternative to soybean meal in poultry nutrition Open
Since the poultry industry strives to adopt more sustainable and cost-efficient feeding practices, searching for alternatives to conventional soybean meal has become a priority. White mushroom stems (WMS), a nutrient-dense byproduct of mus…
View article: 25 Exploring brown mushroom stem as a sustainable soybean meal alternative in layer chicks diet
25 Exploring brown mushroom stem as a sustainable soybean meal alternative in layer chicks diet Open
The poultry industry is continuously searching innovative and sustainable feed alternatives to reduce dependence on conventional ingredients like soybean meal, which has significant environmental and economic concerns. Brown mushroom stems…
View article: M18K: A Multi-Purpose Real-World Dataset for Mushroom Detection, 3D Pose Estimation, and Growth Monitoring
M18K: A Multi-Purpose Real-World Dataset for Mushroom Detection, 3D Pose Estimation, and Growth Monitoring Open
Automating agricultural processes holds significant promise for enhancing efficiency and sustainability in various farming practices. This paper contributes to the automation of agricultural processes by providing a dedicated mushroom dete…
View article: Harnessing mushrooms for poultry nutrition: Boosting health, immunity, and productivity
Harnessing mushrooms for poultry nutrition: Boosting health, immunity, and productivity Open
View article: M18K: A Multi-Purpose Real-World Dataset for Mushroom Detection, 3D Pose Estimation, and Growth Monitoring
M18K: A Multi-Purpose Real-World Dataset for Mushroom Detection, 3D Pose Estimation, and Growth Monitoring Open
Automating agricultural processes holds significant promise for enhancing efficiency and sustainability in various farming practices. This paper contributes to the automation of agricultural processes by providing a dedicated mushroom dete…
View article: SMS3D: 3D Synthetic Mushroom Scenes Dataset for 3D Object Detection and Pose Estimation
SMS3D: 3D Synthetic Mushroom Scenes Dataset for 3D Object Detection and Pose Estimation Open
The mushroom farming industry struggles to automate harvesting due to limited large-scale annotated datasets and the complex growth patterns of mushrooms, which complicate detection, segmentation, and pose estimation. To address this, we i…
View article: SMS3D: 3D Synthetic Mushroom Scenes Dataset for 3D Object Detection and Pose Estimation
SMS3D: 3D Synthetic Mushroom Scenes Dataset for 3D Object Detection and Pose Estimation Open
The mushroom farming industry struggles to automate harvesting due to limited large-scale annotated datasets and the complex growth patterns of mushrooms, which complicate detection, segmentation, and pose estimation. To address this, we i…
View article: Edge-Deployable Growth and Yield Forecasting for Commercial Mushroom Farms
Edge-Deployable Growth and Yield Forecasting for Commercial Mushroom Farms Open
View article: Advancements in ammonia-based pretreatment: key benefits and industry applications
Advancements in ammonia-based pretreatment: key benefits and industry applications Open
Comprehensive review of ammonia-based biomass pretreatments, examining diverse processes with varying reaction conditions and reactor configurations that modify biomass structure to enhance accessibility for biofuel, feed, and material app…
View article: Microbiome diversity and variations in industrial hemp genotypes
Microbiome diversity and variations in industrial hemp genotypes Open
View article: Robotic Button Mushroom Harvesting Systems: A Review of Design, Mechanism, and Future Directions
Robotic Button Mushroom Harvesting Systems: A Review of Design, Mechanism, and Future Directions Open
The global demand for button mushrooms has surged in recent years, driven by their health benefits, creating a significant challenge for the mushroom industry in meeting this increasing demand. The increasing reliance on human labor, which…
View article: A Hybrid Three-Finger Gripper for Automated Harvesting of Button Mushrooms
A Hybrid Three-Finger Gripper for Automated Harvesting of Button Mushrooms Open
Button mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) grow in multilayered Dutch shelves with limited space between two shelves. As an alternative to conventional hand-picking, automated harvesting in recent times has gained widespread popularity. However,…
View article: M18K: A Comprehensive RGB-D Dataset and Benchmark for Mushroom Detection and Instance Segmentation
M18K: A Comprehensive RGB-D Dataset and Benchmark for Mushroom Detection and Instance Segmentation Open
Automating agricultural processes holds significant promise for enhancing efficiency and sustainability in various farming practices. This paper contributes to the automation of agricultural processes by providing a dedicated mushroom dete…
View article: Multifaced application of AFEX-pretreated biomass in producing second-generation biofuels, ruminant animal feed, and value-added bioproducts
Multifaced application of AFEX-pretreated biomass in producing second-generation biofuels, ruminant animal feed, and value-added bioproducts Open
View article: Microbiome Diversity and Variations in Industrial Hemp Genotypes
Microbiome Diversity and Variations in Industrial Hemp Genotypes Open
Microorganisms like bacteria and fungi are crucial for host medicinal plant growth and development. However, environmental factors and host genotypes can influence microbiome composition and diversity in plants such as industrial hemp (Can…
View article: M18k: A Comprehensive Rgb-D Dataset and Benchmark for Mushroom Detection and Instance Segmentation
M18k: A Comprehensive Rgb-D Dataset and Benchmark for Mushroom Detection and Instance Segmentation Open
View article: Arabinose as an overlooked sugar for microbial bioproduction of chemical building blocks
Arabinose as an overlooked sugar for microbial bioproduction of chemical building blocks Open
The circular economy is anticipated to bring a disruptive transformation in manufacturing technologies. Robust and industrial scalable microbial strains that can simultaneously assimilate and valorize multiple carbon substrates are highly …
View article: Modeling the Production of Microalgal Biomass in Large Water Resource Recovery Facilities and Its Processing into Various Commodity Bioproducts
Modeling the Production of Microalgal Biomass in Large Water Resource Recovery Facilities and Its Processing into Various Commodity Bioproducts Open
Algae are capable of sequestering nutrients such as nitrates and phosphates from wastewater in the presence of sunlight and carbon dioxide (CO2) to build up their body mass and help combat climate change. In the current study, we carried o…
View article: Carbon emissions and decarbonisation: The role and relevance of fermentation industry in chemical sector
Carbon emissions and decarbonisation: The role and relevance of fermentation industry in chemical sector Open
Fermentation industry is emerging as sustainable technological alternative to cater the production of various chemical building blocks which are commercially manufactured by petrochemical route. The primary reason for this major transition…
View article: Fractionating Chitin and Coproducts from Pleurotus ostreatus Mushrooms
Fractionating Chitin and Coproducts from Pleurotus ostreatus Mushrooms Open
A large amount of wasted mushroom stems are accumulated yearly by the mushroom industry. To reduce this waste, we have proposed a fractionation method to isolate several useful coproducts such as β-glucans, lipids, Vitamin D, polyphenols, …
View article: Corrigendum: Microbiome variation across populations of desert halophyte Zygophyllum qatarensis
Corrigendum: Microbiome variation across populations of desert halophyte Zygophyllum qatarensis Open
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.841217.].
View article: Methods for pretreating biomass
Methods for pretreating biomass Open
A method of alkaline pretreatment of biomass, in particular, pretreating biomass with gaseous ammonia.
View article: Methods for increasing sugar yield with size-adjusted lignocellulosic biomass particles
Methods for increasing sugar yield with size-adjusted lignocellulosic biomass particles Open
A method of increasing sugar yield in a bioproduct production process is provided comprising pretreating one or more size-adjusted lignocellulosic biomass (LCB) particles with a pretreatment, such as an ammonia pretreatment, wherein the on…
View article: Potential of using microalgae to sequester carbon dioxide and processing to bioproducts
Potential of using microalgae to sequester carbon dioxide and processing to bioproducts Open
Microalgae could be sustainably used to sequester CO 2 and processed to fuels and chemicals.