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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 20, Issue 7, Pages 4532-4539Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-012-1405-z
Keywords
Amino acids; Antioxidants; Banana; Bioenhancer; Chyseobacterium sp RBT; Feather waste
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- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India
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Feather waste is a promising protein biomass available as by-product from poultry processing was found to be rich in peptides, amino acids, and minerals like nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, zinc, and copper. Soil and foliar application of these products, besides representing a sustainable solution to the problem of feather disposal, may also represent an effective strategy to tackle the environmental effluence. As a consequence, they were also found to be very attractive in elevating the protein, amino acids, reducing sugar, total chlorophyll, and proline content of plants. On the other side, fertilizing effect enhanced the antioxidant potential of banana fruit which was assessed using 2, 2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl, ferric reducing/antioxidant power, and N, N-dimethyl-p-phenylendiamine. This was associated with considerably higher antioxidant contents like total phenolics and flavonoids. Therefore, the application of this organic amendment could promote and improve the agro-ecosystem, human health; soil biological activities, and at the same time enhance the production of plant or products rich in bioactive substances.
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