Characterization of rhizobacteri having potential to control Xanthomonas oryzae pv.  oryzae and increase plant growth of rice. Rhizobacteria which are isolated from root could produce HCN, siderophore, and plant growth regulator,  induce systemic resistance, and are increase uptake of plant nutrition  such as phosphate.  The objective of this research was to characterize rhizobacteri  as controling agent for  Xanthomonas oryzae pv.oryzae (Xoo) and as plant growth promoter. The results show that the isolates of P. diminuta A6, P. aeruginosa A54, B.subtilis 11 /C, and B. subtilis  5/B  inhibited the growth of Xoo.  B. subtilis 5/B isolate produced the highest siderophore  activity, followed by of P. aeruginosa A54, P. diminuta A6 and B. subtilis 11/C. Only  P. diminuta A6 isolate  produced HCN. The results also showed that all  rhizobacteri  produced IAA i.e.  B.subtilis 5/B (22.10 µg/ml), B. subtilis 11/C (19.05 µg/ml), P. diminuta A6 (8.68 ug/ml), and  P. aeruginosa A54 (2.95 µg/ml). The content of phosphatase enzyme was as folows B.subtilis 5/B (2.78 units/ ml), B.subtilis 11/C (5.7 units/ml), P. diminuta A6 (2.25 units/ml), and P. aeruginosa A54 (5.71 units / ml). Content of peroxidase enzymes in plants that were treated by using isolates was as follows B.subtilis 5/B (1.30 x 10-3 units/mg protein), P. aeruginosa A6 (1.20 x 10-3 units/mg protein), B.subtilis 11/C (1.15 x 10-3 units/mg protein), and P. aeruginosa A54 (1.05 x 10-3 units/mg protein).

-Cassava, corn, sago and the other food crops have been commonly used as raw materials to produce green plastics. However, plastics produced from such crops cannot be tailored to fit a particular requirement due to their poor water resistance and mechanical properties. Nowadays, researchers are hence looking to get alternative raw materials from the other sustainable resources to produce plastics. Their recent published studies have reported that marine red algae, that has been already widely used as a raw material for producing biofuels, is one of the potential algae crops that can be turned into plastics. In this work, Eucheuma Cottonii, that is one of the red alga crops, was used as raw material to produce plastics by using a filtration technique. Selected latex of Artocarpus altilis and Calostropis gigantea was separately then blended with bioplastics derived from the red algae, to replace use of glycerol as plasticizer. Role of the glycerol and the selected latex on physical and mechanical properties of the red algae bioplastics obtained under a tensile test performed at room temperature are discussed. Tensile strength of some starch-based plastics collected from some recent references is also presented in this paper.

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Private sectors have invested in the technology to grow some Gelidialian red algae families and also tried to convert the algae to pulp and paper over the last few years in order to replace raw materials from wood. Several modern systems with their all complexities which are similar to the wood pulp-based papermaking technology have been offered to overcome any recent issues settle in the converting process. Chemical bleaching agents have even been still a standard treatment that must be established for properly converting the algae pulp to a sheet of paper. In this present work, the two genus of red algae, called Gracilaria and Eucheuma, were simply processed to make pulps without use of any bleaching chemical agents. The potential use of pulps made of the red algae as raw materials for papermaking was mechanically studied by testing the sheets made of the red algae through a tensile test at a room temperature under 20 mm/min according to ASTM D 828-97 (2002). Tensile properties of the proposed algaebased paper sheets obtained under the constant rate are discussed. Tensile properties of the selected wood-based paper sheets obtained under the same condition are also presented in this paper. The results showed that pulps made of the red algae would be the alternative to those of the wood and other natural fibers as raw materials for papermaking.

Based on previous available constitutive models, a phenomenological constitutive model has been constructed and is proposed to describe the strain, strain rate and temperature dependentdeformation behavior of PC/ABS blends. In this paper, four quasi-static uniaxial tension tests of a specimen tested at different strain rates and temperatures were used to identify the constitutive model constants. By using the proposed constitutive model, predicting the stress-strain behavior of the PC/ABS blend tested at certain strain rate and different temperatures compares well to the behavior exhibited from the tests. From comparison between the DSGZ and the proposed models, proposed model shows a better prediction. Evaluation of the proposed constitutive model was also presented and it has revealed that the proposed model might have a potential to be used for predicting a wide range of temperatures and high strain rates behavior of PC/ABS blends.