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Illinois Fertilizer Conference Proceedings
January 25-27, 1999

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Table 3. Microbiological status of waste-pile soil and soil collected from the soybean field plots at Galesville, August 1987.
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  Numbers / g ods                            Enzyme Activity2
Treatment1
Bacteria
(cells x 107)
Fungi
(cfu x 104)
Dehyd.
(ug TF/g)
Esterase
(A590/g)
Urease
(ugNH4-N/g)
Check
4.22
2.27
1.2
0.44
364.9
Waste pile 2
0.31
0.22
0.0
0.05
353.4
Waste pile 4
1.73
0.25
0.0
0.11
364.9
1x-S
30.60
2.57
3.5
0.15
348.5
5x-S
3.06
3.17
3.6
0.16
357.6
1/ Plot codes given in Table 1.
2/ Dehydrogenase enzyme activity expressed as g triphenylformazan formed/g ods/h; esterase enzyme activity expressed as absorbance units of fluorescein/g ods/h; urease enzyme activity given as ammonia-N produced/g ods.

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