DocumentCode
526958
Title
Notice of Retraction
An efficient method for preparing alga “seeds” for artificial cultivation from dry sample of Nostoc flagelliforme using liquid nitrogen
Author
Yufeng Ai ; Yinghui Liu ; Xiang Gao ; Baosheng Qiu
Author_Institution
Hubei Key Lab. of Genetic Regul. & Integrative Biol., Central China Normal Univ., Wuhan, China
Volume
2
fYear
2010
fDate
17-18 July 2010
Firstpage
25
Lastpage
27
Abstract
Notice of Retraction
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
Nostoc flagelliforme, which grows in arid or semiarid steppes of the west and westnorthern parts of China, has a potential application in the ecological restoration of the damaged ecosystem in there. The reducing and slowly grown material is potentially the main limiting factor for the scale-up cultivation and application of it. In this paper, to prepare as many short vegetative filaments as possible to serve as alga “seeds” for artificial cultivation, a new method was attempted by gently crushing liquid-nitrogen frozen dry sample of N. flagelliforme. The results showed that moderately air-dried samples of N. flagelliforme (around 13% water content) could be directly subjected to treat by liquid nitrogen to produce living filaments and the number of them is at least twice to four times than that obtained by conventional cutting by scissors. In short, this new method of treating N. flagelliforme with liquid nitrogen would be a good solution to the sourcing of enough alga “seeds” for the future scale-up cultivation and application.
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
Nostoc flagelliforme, which grows in arid or semiarid steppes of the west and westnorthern parts of China, has a potential application in the ecological restoration of the damaged ecosystem in there. The reducing and slowly grown material is potentially the main limiting factor for the scale-up cultivation and application of it. In this paper, to prepare as many short vegetative filaments as possible to serve as alga “seeds” for artificial cultivation, a new method was attempted by gently crushing liquid-nitrogen frozen dry sample of N. flagelliforme. The results showed that moderately air-dried samples of N. flagelliforme (around 13% water content) could be directly subjected to treat by liquid nitrogen to produce living filaments and the number of them is at least twice to four times than that obtained by conventional cutting by scissors. In short, this new method of treating N. flagelliforme with liquid nitrogen would be a good solution to the sourcing of enough alga “seeds” for the future scale-up cultivation and application.
Keywords
agricultural engineering; ecology; microorganisms; nitrogen; China; Nostoc flagelliforme; alga seeds preparation; artificial cultivation; ecological restoration; ecosystem; liquid nitrogen; vegetative filaments; Book reviews; Ecosystems; Frequency modulation; Laboratories; Media; Nitrogen; Artificial cultivation; Ecological restoration; Liquid nitrogen; Nostoc flagelliforme;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Environmental Science and Information Application Technology (ESIAT), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Wuhan
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-7387-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ESIAT.2010.5567265
Filename
5567265
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