BACKGROUND AND AIMS The basic set of adaptations necessary for salinity tolerance in vascular plants remains unknown. Although much has been published on salinity stress, almost all studies deal with spermatophytes. Studies of salinity tolerance in pteridophytes are relatively rare but hold promise for revealing the fundamental adaptations that all salt-tolerant vascular plants may share. The m...

Equally effective way to achieve sustainable farming and the challenge set by European Commission on 20 May 2020: proper crop rotation thus reduction of quantity on-farm chemicals. Long-term stationary field experiments were established in 1966 at Vytautas Magnus University Experimental Station (54°53? N, 23°50? E). The study was conducted with intensive, three-course, row crops, for green manu...

The majority of pollinating insects are generalists whose lifetimes overlap flowering periods of many potentially suitable plant species. Such generality is instrumental in allowing exotic plant species to invade pollination networks. The particulars of how existing networks change in response to an invasive plant over the course of its phenology are not well characterized, but may shed light o...

Introduction. Human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) are a pool of immune and they also convenient model system for studying pathologies. Aim. Testing bioactivity glycerolipid prepa­rations from fern horsetail species containing long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFAs) towards PBMCs without exogenous stimulation after phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA) plus ionomycin stimul...

BACKGROUND Nail psoriasis occurs in up to 50% of patients affected by psoriasis, with a significant impact on quality of life that leads to a real clinical need for new therapeutic options. AIM To confirm whether the strengthening and hardening properties of the hydroxypropyl-chitosan (HPCH) nail lacquer could improve the structure of the nail plates on psoriatic nails. MATERIALS AND METHOD...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Only few data on the epicuticular waxes (EWs) of horsetails are available. This contribution therefore focuses on the wax micromorphology and chemical composition of Equisetum species of the subgenera Equisetum and Hippochaete. METHODOLOGY Distribution patterns and structural details of EW on the shoots were studied by scanning electron microscopy. After extraction with ch...