Sugarcane bagasse ash as fertilizer for soybeans: Effects of added residues on ash composition, mineralogy, phosphorus extractability and plant availability.

Sugarcane bagasse is commonly combusted to generate energy. Unfortunately, recycling strategies rarely consider the resulting ash as a potential fertilizer. To evaluate this recycling strategy for a sustainable circular economy, we characterized bagasse ash as a fertilizer and measured the effects of co-gasification and co-combustion of bagasse with either chicken manure or sewage sludge: on the phosphorus (P) mass fraction, P-extractability, and mineral P phases.

Biotechnological production of polyphosphate from industrial wash water.

Phosphate is mined from phosphate rock, which is a limited resource on a human time scale. For a sustainable phosphate supply, strategies for efficient use and recycling of phosphate must be developed. A German chemical company produces annually wash water containing phosphate and other inorganic substances (e.

Discovery and Biosynthesis of Antimicrobial Phenethylamine Alkaloids from the Marine Flavobacterium sv11.

The bacterial genus has been associated with various ecological roles in marine environments. Members of this genus can act, for example, as pathogens, predators, or episymbionts. However, natural products produced by these bacteria are still unknown.

Soil phosphorus status and P nutrition strategies of European beech forests on carbonate compared to silicate parent material.

Unlabelled: Sustainable forest management requires understanding of ecosystem phosphorus (P) cycling. Lang et al. (2017) [ https://doi.

Phytase blends for enhanced phosphorous mobilization of deoiled seeds.

Phytases are hydrolytic enzymes capable of a stepwise phosphate release from phytate which is the main phosphorous storage in seeds, cereals and legumes. Limitations such as low enzyme activity or incomplete phytate hydrolysis to inositol are a great challenge in phytase applications in food and feed. Herein we report a phytase blend of two enzymes with additive effects on phytate (InsP6) hydrolysis and its application in the enzymatic phosphorous recovery process.