An overview: Recycling nutrients from crop residues for space applications

Compost Science and Utilization

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 25-31

  Strayer, Richard F ^a   Atkinson, Cheryl F ^b  

^a DYNAMAC CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA;

MINERAL;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; BIOREMEDIATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GOVERNMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; POTATO; SPACE FLIGHT; UNITED STATES; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WEIGHTLESSNESS; WHEAT;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CULTURE MEDIA; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, CLOSED; LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS; MINERALS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SPACE FLIGHT; TRITICUM; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0031151239     PISSN: 1065657X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1065657X.1997.10701882     Document Type: Article

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