Microbial communities in shale oil fields are still poorly known. We obtained samples of injection, produced and facility waters from a Bakken shale oil field in Saskatchewan, Canada with a resident temperature of 60°C. The injection water had a lower salinity (0.7 Meq of NaCl) than produced or facility waters (0.6-3.6 Meq of NaCl). Salinities of the latter decreased with time, likely due to in...

saline and drought stress conditions are the most important factors in yield reduction of crops in the world. breeding of cultivars with high tolerance to these stresses and satisfactory yielding are considerable. the aim of this study was to compare the means of selected generations in saline and drought stress conditions in order to calculate response to selection. in this study two populatio...

In a recent study of the mesotidal Ria Formosa, a coastal lagoon in southern Portugal, water temperature in the channels ranged from 12 C in winter to 27 C in summer and salinity from 13 to 36.5, although much higher values were observed in saltpans. Conditions in the Ria Formosa were not homogeneous despite a large tidal exchange of water; the inner channels of the Ria Formosa were brackish in...

Mesophyll cells from leaves of cowpea (Vigna unquiculata [L.] Walp.) plants grown under saline conditions were isolated and used for the determination of photosynthetic CO(2) fixation. Maximal CO(2) fixation rate was obtained when the osmotic potential of both cell isolation and CO(2) fixation assay media were close to leaf osmotic potential, yielding a zero turgor pressure. Hypotonic and hyper...

in order to study the interaction of temperature and salinity on seed germination and seedling growth of cucumis melo a factorial experiment was conducted based on crd with four replications. the factors included four temperature levels (25, 30, 35 and 40 °c) and five salinity levels (0, -0.2, -0.4, -0.6 and -0.8 mpa). germination rate and percentage, shoot length, root length, seedling vigor i...

Photosynthetic gas exchange, modulated chlorophyll fluorescence, rapid fluorescence induction kinetics, and the polyphasic fluorescence transients were used to evaluate PSII photochemistry in the halophyte Suaeda salsa exposed to a combination of high salinity (100-400 mM NaCl) and heat stress (35-47.5 degrees C, air temperature). CO(2) assimilation rate increased slightly with increasing salt ...