In the present study the induction of metallothioneins (MTs) and its relation to cytosolic metal concentrations (Zn, Cu and Cd) in the euryhaline crustacean Neomysis integer exposed to Cd at different salinities was studied. N. integer was exposed to the same free cadmium ion activity of 5.74 x 10(-9) mol l(-1) (i.e. 1/5 of the 96 h LC(50) value expressed as cadmium activity) in hypo-osmotic (5...

Plant growth and development are adversely affected by salinity – a major environmental stress that limits agricultural production. This chapter provides an overview of the physiological mechanisms by which growth and development of crop plants are affected by salinity. The initial phase of growth reduction is due to an osmotic effect, is similar to the initial response to water stress and show...

Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) is a perennial rhizomatous plant from the family of Zingibraceae, native in South Asia. The main components of turmeric are curcuminoids and essential oil which are responsible for turmeric characteristic such as odor and taste. Due to the large areas of saline land in Iran and less information related to cultivation of turmeric, in this research, the effect of salin...

to study the interaction effect of the salinity and salicylic acid on some morphological and physiological traits in clary sage (salvia sclarea), a pot experiment was conducted as factorial based on a completely randomized design with three levels of nacl and control (zero, 50, 100 and 150 mm), as the first factor and three levels of spraying the solution of salicylic acid and control (zero, 10...

abstract little information is available concerning morphological responses of lolium perenne cultivars (numan and speedy green) to salinity and trinexapac-ethyl treatment in initial growth. in order to evaluate the effect of salinity treatment (0, 2000, 4000 and 6000 mg/lit) and trinexapac-ethyl levels (0, 50, 100 gr/ha) on morphological responses of 'numan' and 'speedy green' in initial growt...

[1] This study assesses the relationship to salinity and temperature of the levels of the tetra-unsaturated 37carbon methyl alkenone (C37:4) in the surface ocean. U37 K0, a measure of the relative abundances of the C37:2 and the C37:3 alkenones, has a well constrained linear relationship to temperature in the open ocean [Prahl and Wakeham, 1987] and is a well-established technique for estimatin...

Porites coral-based sea surface temperature (SST) reconstructions are obtained from the measurement of skeleton Sr /Ca ratio. However, the influence of salinity in the incorporation of these trace elements in the Porites aragonitic skeleton is still poorly documented. Laboratory experiments indicate that in three different coral species (not including the widely used Porites genus), salinity do...