The present disclosure provides agricultural compositions and methods of using these compositions to increase plant growth, pathogen resistance and drought tolerance. The agricultural compositions disclosed herein comprise mixtures of mutualistic beneficial fungi such as Laccaria bicolor and Piriformispora indica, and bacterial strains of Pseudomonas.

An improved bacterial oil treatment composition or pool for handling a decommissioned oil cable, which may be laid in particular as part of a power grid in the ground. The invention further relates to a bacteria growth culture medium containing the bacterial oil treatment composition for refurbishing an oil cable and a corresponding use.

Disclosed are isothiocyanate (ITC)-detecting biosensors that utilize recombinant host cells containing an ITC responsive genetic element such as a saxA promoter, operably linked with a reporter element, such as a luxCDABE operon or ilux operon. Such biosensors can detect the presence of diverse ITCs in samples such as plant extracts, biofumigated soils and seed meal amended soils.

This application relates to Pseudomonas fluorescens N1, and usage therefor in solid waste recycling based on full bionic simulation combined with a microorganism. Light, temperature, gas and heat conditions in cyclic transformation of organic carbon in soil are simulated, and solid waste is mixed and stacked in the soil or between hills, wherein the solid waste is basically blended according to the carbon-nitrogen ratio, alkalinity or acidity, and water content of the solid waste, and no turning is performed according to the principle of anaerobic fermentation. By introducing high-carbon, high-salt, alkaline or acidic liquid waste using a bionic head cover during stacking, the anaerobic fermentation process is controlled to stop at an acid production stage so that organic acids produced are fully mixed with the solid waste, and the nutrients in the solid waste are released by using acidic materials and thus become nutritional elements for acidic material chelation.