Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.) is a technical plant that manages to adapt very well unfriendly environments, even in polluted or poor nutrients soils and may serve the near future as an important raw material for food, chemical, pharmaceutical industries. Furthermore, growing rapidly, producing large amounts of biomass offers possibility be harvested up 2 times year, therefore pr...

There is more diversity among microorganisms such as bacteria than there is in the range of life from artichokes to zebras. Bacteria have successfully colonized virtually e very environment on earth because they can rapidly adapt to changing conditions, and use a large and varied number of nutrients to generate energy. How e ve r, until relat ively recently, the environments of many petroleum r...

Mulching the soil with organic-based formulations (hydromulching) is a sustainable alternative to plastic mulching that here hypothesized maintain crop production under drought stress by hormonal and metabolic regulation of source–sink relationships. To test this hypothesis, artichoke plants were grown on non-mulched mulched polyethylene three different organic mixtures, subjected optimal reduc...