Composting of toxic weed Parthenium hysterophorus: Nutrient changes, the fate of faecal coliforms, and biopesticide property assessment.
Black rot disease
C/N ratio
Congress grass
Faecal coliforms
Germination index
Invasive weed
Journal
Bioresource technology
ISSN: 1873-2976
Titre abrégé: Bioresour Technol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9889523
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2020
Sep 2020
Historique:
received:
04
04
2020
revised:
07
05
2020
accepted:
07
05
2020
pubmed:
24
5
2020
medline:
10
6
2020
entrez:
24
5
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This study aimed to investigate; composting of toxic weed Parthenium with cow dung in (2:1, and 1:1 ratio); and the changes in Escherichia coli and Salmonella population; as well as the antimicrobial property of ready compost. Organic carbon decreased by 45-52% while total nitrogen, total potassium, available phosphorus increased by 1.87- to 3.21-, 1.65- to 1.83-, and 4.03- to 3.33-folds, respectively in Parthenium setups. Germination index value (110-132%) indicates no phytotoxicity of composted Parthenium. E. coli reduced by 6.87 to 6.90 log population (<1000 CFU g
Identifiants
pubmed: 32446237
pii: S0960-8524(20)30795-1
doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2020.123523
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Biological Control Agents
0
Plant Extracts
0
Soil
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
123523Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.