Feasibility of vermicomposting for vegetable greenhouse waste recycling

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 101, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 9654-9660

  Fernández Gómez, Manuel J ^a   Romero, Esperanza ^a   Nogales, Rogelio ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Eisenia andrei; Enzyme activity; Genetic fingerprinting; PCR DGGE; Phytotoxicity test

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; C:N RATIO; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; COCOON PRODUCTION; DEGREE OF STABILIZATION; EISENIA ANDREI; GENETIC FINGERPRINTING; GERMINATION INDEX; HIGH RATE; PCR-DGGE; PHYTOTOXICITY TEST; VEGETABLE WASTES; VERMI-COMPOSTING; VERMICOMPOSTS; WASTE RECYCLING;

BACTERIOLOGY; ENZYMES; FRUITS; GREENHOUSES; VEGETABLES;

ENZYME ACTIVITY;

ACID PHOSPHATASE; BETA GLUCOSIDASE; UREASE;

COCOON; COMPOSTING; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EARTHWORM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FRUIT; GERMINATION; GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYTOTOXICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECYCLING; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SALINITY; SOLID WASTE; STABILIZATION; SURVIVAL; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; VEGETABLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COCOON; COMPOSTING; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EARTHWORM; EISENIA ANDREI; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GERMINATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; ORGANIC WASTE; PH MEASUREMENT; PHYTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; SALINITY; TOMATO; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; VEGETABLE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GERMINATION; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; OLIGOCHAETA; PHYLOGENY; RECYCLING; REFUSE DISPOSAL; REPRODUCTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SODIUM; SOIL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EISENIA ANDREI; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 77956111152     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2010.07.109     Document Type: Article

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