The spatial variability of cultivated soil available phosphorus(P) contents is the work foundation of adjusting measures for cultivated management, rationally applying P fertilizer, minimizing P loss, decreasing non-point source pollution of water. A case of Gaozhou City, we collected 664 soil samples in cultivate horizon, then the characteristics of spatial variability, spatial distribution pa...

Confirming positive effects and offering optimal ranges of tea saponins on improving the efficiency phytoremediation cadmium is a prerequisite for applying in field remediation. Existing studies qualitatively tested feasibility promoting absorption by hyperaccumulators pots experiments, while this study investigated increasing proportion available fraction contaminated soil quantitatively confi...

Transplantation of cultivated limbal epithelium on substrates such as amniotic membrane is an established treatment for severe ocular surface disease with limbal stem cell deficiency. In this study, we adapted an established method to generate sheets of limbal epithelium on amniotic membrane and characterized the cells contained in these sheets and tested them for safety with regard to microbia...

Arsenic is a toxic pollutant present in the environment that causes serious health issues. Phytoremediation is one potential solution to mitigate arsenic contamination in either soil or water. Two main forms of arsenic exist in the environment, arsenite, [As(III)], and arsenate, [As(V)]. In plant mechanisms, arsenate reductase reduces arsenate to arsenite with the help of thioredoxins or glutar...

Thlaspi caerulescens is a well-studied metal-hyperaccumulator of zinc, cadmium and nickel, belonging to the Brassicaceae family. Moreover it is one of the few hyperaccumulators that occur on different metalliferous soil types, as well as on nonmetalliferous soils. We are interested in the development of systems to improve phytoremediation of metal contaminated soils through improved metal-accum...

As the ancestor of cultivated grape, Vitis vinifera subsp. sylvestris represents a unique, invaluable genetic resource for the improvement of cultivated grapevines. Recently, five populations of wild grapevines were identified in Portugal. Sixty vines were characterized with 11 nuclear SSR markers and further compared with 70 genotypes of Portuguese Vitis vinifera subsp. sativa. The obtained da...

Myrtle is an evergreen shrub or small tree widespread throughout the Mediterranean region. In Turkey, both cultivated and wild forms, differing in plant and fruit size and fruit composition, can be found. These differences may have resulted from the domestication of the cultivated form over a long period of time. We investigated whether wild and cultivated forms of myrtle differ in karyological...

The harmful effects of mercury lead to the inhibition growth and changes in biochemical constituents food crops. Plants that are hyperaccumulators accumulate present air or soil which leads retardation as well affects metabolic pathway regulation plants. Several reactions happen due metallic accumulation such lipid peroxidation, enzyme activation, chromosomal aberrations, untimely cell death. M...

Based on the background of construct the national grain strategy project of Henan province core and construct Zhongyuan Economic Zone, considering the Henan province's cultivated land resources use efficiency and food security, using multiple linear regression model and the principal component analysis to analyze the cultivated land resources’ use efficiency between 1999-2008 of Henan province,...

A common practice on Israeli dairy barns comprises daily cultivation of the manure. Cultivation is a mechanical process used to break up and till the manure bedding and it results in a drier and aerated bedding and cleaner cows, which consequently reduces the incidence of mastitis. Cultivation was associated with a shorter survival of Escherichia coli in cultivated manure as compared with noncu...