Tropical forests play a substantial role in the global carbon (C) cycle and are projected to experience significant changes in climate, highlighting the importance of understanding the factors that control organic matter decomposition in this biome. In the tropics, high temperature and rainfall lead to some of the highest rates of litter decomposition on earth, and given the near-optimal abioti...

Among the physiological races of Nacobbus aberrans Thorne and Allen, only the "sugarbeet" race is present in the United States (5). This race reproduces on kochia (Kochia scoparia (L.) Schrad.), tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.), and sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris L.) but not on pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) and potato (Solanum tuberosum L. and S. tuberosum subsp, andigena Jus. and Buk.) (5). Koch...

Sustainable agriculture can increase the efficiency of resource utilization, provide longer productivity and create a balance in the environment. A field experiment was conducted to study the use of organic and chemical fertilizers on biomass, essential oil content and essential oil yield as well as chemical compositions of Dracocephalum polychaetum Burnm in the first and second cutting. The tr...

A possible influence of low growth temperature on the photochemical activity of isolated mesophyll chloroplasts was studied in three biotypes of kochia [Kochia scoparia (L.) Schrad.] that showed either double resistance to both atrazine and acetolactate synthase (ALS) inhibitors (Bubny biotype), resistance to ALS inhibitors but not to atrazine (Jihlava biotype), or sensitivity to both types of ...

Effect of Salinity and Cadmium on Chlorophyll Content, Antioxidant Activity Weight Kochia Plant (Kochia indica)