In Mediterranean cropping systems, it is important to utilise marginal lands for the cultivation of native food crops. Previous research on Crithmum maritimum L., a species southern Europe, has focused its alimentary and chemical parameters. The aim present study was identify effects irrigation fertigation systems C. in systems. We planted seeds an organic farm Italy, we carried out three exper...

Bacterial strains were isolated from sponge and green algae which were collected on the coast of Japan and Palau. The phylogenetic relationships of these isolates among marine species of the Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides complex were analysed by using their gyrB nucleotide sequences and translated peptide sequences (GyrB) in addition to 16S rDNA sequences. These isolates were closely rel...

Plastic debris has been accumulating in the marine realm since start of plastic mass production 1950s. Due to adverse effects on ocean life, fate plastics environment is an increasingly important environmental issue. Microbial degradation, addition weathering, identified as a potentially relevant breakdown route for debris. Although many studies have focused microbial colonization and potential...

Six natural polyphenolic compounds, brevifolin carboxylic acid, brevifolin, ellagic acid, methyl gallate, gallic acid and protocatechuic acid have been isolated from the methanol extract of the whole plant of Erodium cicutarium (L.) L.'Hérit. (Geraniaceae). Structures were determined by conventional methods of analysis and confirmed by MS and NMR spectral analysis. The distribution of these com...

acetylcholinesterase properties of the aerial parts and roots essential oils from Crithmum maritimum L., Apiaceae, gathered in the area of Monastir (Tunisia). The essential oils have been analysed by GC and GC-MS. Remarkable differences were found between the constituent percentages of the different studied organs. The most important compounds from the aerial parts were: γ-terpinene (39.3%), me...

It was reported in 1930 (2) that exposure to polarized light had been found to induce hydrolysis of starch grains in the mesophyll of living leaves. Similar action on starch grains in vitro has also been observed (1, 3, 6). The present paper gives an account of some experiments on the hydrolyzing influence of polarized light when applied to foliar stomata. In many plant forms the guard cells of...