Chemical and microbial properties of various compost products

Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 273-280

  Tang, Jing Chun ^a   Katayama, Arata ^a,a,b   Inoue, Yasushi ^b   Yasuta, Tsuyoshi ^a   Yoshida, Shigekata ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering in Graduate School of Engineering ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemical properties; Compost products; Microbial properties; Quinone profile

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANIMALIA; FRAXINUS;

EID: 0038672160     PISSN: 00380768     EISSN: 17470765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00380768.2003.10410007     Document Type: Article

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