Publication Year: 2013 / Subject: 3 selected

Author:: Ragusa, L.; Branca, F.; Licciardello, F.; Restuccia, C.; Melilli, M.G.; Argento, S.; Raccuia, S.A.
Source:: Acta horticulturae 2013 no.1005 pp. 315-321
ISSN:: 0567-7572
Subject:: polyphenols; shelf life; economics; chemical reactions; shoots; carbon dioxide; modified atmosphere packaging; air; carotenoids; oxygen; glucosinolates; functional foods; kale; refrigeration; crops; Brassica oleracea var. sabellica; temperature; antioxidants; ascorbic acid; color; ripening; fungi; Sicily
Abstract:: ... Since some decades, and also in the present global economic crisis, the request for fresh-cut products has showed an increasing trend, and its productive chain represent one of the most remunerative activity of agriculture. In this frame we pointed our attention to diversify fresh-cut vegetable items by several minor and/or underutilized crops and in some case by wild species gathered and utilized ...

Author:: Lemańczyk, Grzegorz; Kwaśna, Hanna
Source:: European journal of plant pathology 2013 v.135 no.1 pp. 187-200
ISSN:: 0929-1873
Subject:: Alternaria alternata; Rhizoctonia cerealis; crops; falling number; fungi; gluten; grain protein; grain yield; shoots; stems; winter wheat; Poland
Abstract:: ... Sharp eyespot caused by Rhizoctonia cerealis was assessed in four winter wheat crops surveyed at four locations in north-central Poland in 2006–2009. At the four locations symptoms developed on 41.9–67.7 % of shoots of all plants (average of 4 years) and on 49–73.5 % of shoots of diseased plants (average of 4 years). Slight (category 1) disease was most frequent, occurring on 24.4–41.3 % of shoots ...
DOI:: 10.1007/s10658-012-0077-3
: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10658-012-0077-3

Author:: Khan, Abdul Latif; Lee, In-Jung
Source:: BMC plant biology 2013 v.13 no.1 pp. 86
ISSN:: 1471-2229
Subject:: Exophiala; Glycine max; Metarhizium anisopliae; Promicromonospora; Talaromyces funiculosus; abscisic acid; bioremediation; biosorption; cadmium; calcium; carbon; chlorophyll; copper; crops; endophytes; fungi; gibberellins; glutamic acid; glutathione; heavy metals; host plants; hydrogen; lipid peroxidation; metabolism; nitrogen; nutrient uptake; oxidative stress; phosphorus; phytomass; plant growth; pollution; potassium; proline; protein content; roots; shoots; soybeans; sulfur; sustainable agriculture; symbiosis; toxicity
Abstract:: ... BACKGROUND: Heavy metal pollution in crop fields is one of the major issues in sustainable agriculture production. To improve crop growth and reduce the toxic effects of metals is an ideal strategy. Understanding the resilience of gibberellins producing endophytic fungi associated with crop plants in metal contaminated agriculture fields could be an important step towards reducing agrochemical pol ...
DOI:: 10.1186/1471-2229-13-86
PubMed:: 23721090
PubMed Central:: PMC3674946
: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2229-13-86

Author:: Bollig, Katharina; Specht, André; Myint, San Shwe; Zahn, Marc; Horst, Walter J.
Source:: European journal of plant pathology 2013 v.135 no.1 pp. 81-96
ISSN:: 0929-1873
Subject:: Verticillium dahliae; crops; defense mechanisms; fungi; genotype; glutathione; leaves; metabolites; nutrition; phloem; photosynthesis; root growth; sap; shoots; sulfur; tomatoes; vascular wilt; wilting
Abstract:: ... Vascular wilt caused by the soil-borne fungus Verticillium dahliae is a major yield and quality-limiting disease across a broad spectrum of crop plants worldwide. Sulphur-enhanced plant defence mechanisms provide an opportunity to effectively and environmentally safely constrain the wilt disease levels in planta. To evaluate the influence of sulphur nutrition on the protective potential of these m ...
DOI:: 10.1007/s10658-012-0067-5
: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10658-012-0067-5

Author:: Shahsavari, Esmaeil; Adetutu, Eric M.; Anderson, Peter A.; Ball, Andrew S.
Source:: Water, air, and soil pollution 2013 v.224 no.4 pp. 1495
ISSN:: 0049-6979
Subject:: bacterial communities; corn; corn soils; crops; denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis; fungi; genes; grasses; hydrocarbons; legumes; microbial activity; oils; petroleum; phytoremediation; polluted soils; polymerase chain reaction; rhizosphere; roots; shoots; soil microorganisms; soil structure; wheat; wheat soils
Abstract:: ... In this study, 11 plants (legumes, grasses, and crops) were screened for their ability to grow and survive in soil contaminated with 1 % diesel/oil mix (aliphatic hydrocarbons) or 1 % crude oil. Based on emergence, shoot length, root length, and root/shoot biomass ratio in contaminated soil, maize and wheat which showed the highest growth were selected for further investigation: a long-term phytor ...
DOI:: 10.1007/s11270-013-1495-3
: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11270-013-1495-3

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