• Ecopiling: a combined phytoremediation and passive biopiling system for remediating hydrocarbon impacted soils at field scale 

  Germaine, K. J.; Byrne, John; Liu, Xuemei; Keohane, Jer; Culhane, John; Lally, Richard D.; Kiwanuka, Samuel; Ryan, David; Dowling, David N. (Frontiers Media, 2015)

  Biopiling is an ex situ bioremediation technology that has been extensively used for remediating a wide range of petrochemical contaminants in soils. Biopiling involves the assembling of contaminated soils into piles and ...

• Plant growth promotion induced by phosphate solubilizing endophytic Pseudomonas isolates. 

  Oteino, Nicholas; Lally, Richard D.; Kiwanuka, Samuel; Lloyd, Andrew; Ryan, David; Germaine, Kieran J.; Dowling, David N (Frontiers Media, 2015)

  The use of plant growth promoting bacterial inoculants as live microbial biofertilizers provides a promising alternative to chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Inorganic phosphate solubilization is one of the major ...

• Profiling antibiotic resistance and electrotransformation potential of Ensifer adhaerens OV14; a non-Agrobacterium species capable of efficient rates of plant transformation. 

  Rathore, Dheeraj Singh; Lopez-Vernaza, Manuel A.; Doohan, Fiona; O Connell, Danielle; Lloyd, Andrew; Mullins, Ewen (Oxford University Press, 2015)

  Ensifer adhaerens OV14 underpins the successful crop transformation protocol termed Ensifer-mediated transformation but issues exist in regard to addressing the pleomorphic tendency of the bacterium in suboptimal conditions, ...

• Engineering plant biomass lignin content and composition for biofuels and bioproducts 

  Welker, Cassie Marie; Balasubramanian, Vimal Kumar; Petti, Carloalberto; Rai, Krishan Mohan; DeBolt, Seth; Mendu, Venugopal (MDPI, 2015)

  Lignin is an aromatic biopolymer involved in providing structural support to plant cell walls. Compared to the other cell wall polymers, i.e., cellulose and hemicelluloses, lignin has been considered a hindrance in cellulosic ...

• Talent on demand? Talent management in the German and Irish subsidiaries of a US multinational corporation 

  Burbach, Ralf; Royle, Tony (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2010)

  Purpose – As the interest in talent management (TM) gathers momentum, this paper aims to unravel how talent is managed in multinational corporations, what factors mediate the talent management process and what computerised ...

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