Mungbean is an important pulse crop extensively cultivated in Southeast Asia for supply of easily digestible protein. Salinity severely limits the growth and productivity of mungbean, and weeding poses nutritional and disease constraints to mungbean cultivation. To pyramid both salt tolerance and protection against herbicide in mungbean, the AtNHX1 encoding tonoplast Na+/H+ antiporter from Arab...

Membrane parameters characteristic for the study of electrolyte solutions across microporous membranes such as salt permeability, ion transport numbers and membrane electrical resistance have been determined for a ceramic microfiltration membrane by measuring salt diffusion, membrane potential and impedance spectroscopy (IS), respectively. In order to see the effect of ion charge and concentrat...

To determine the role of the transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1 (TRPV1) channels in development of hypertension in Dahl salt–sensitive (DS) rats fed a high-salt diet (HS), male DS and Dahl salt–resistant (DR) rats were maintained on a low-salt diet (LS) or HS for 3 weeks. HS significantly increased systolic blood pressure in DS HS rats compared with DS LS, DR HS, and DR LS rats. Intr...

Nitric oxide (NO) plays an important role in the control of vascular tone. Traditionally, its vasorelaxant activity has been attributed to the free radical form of NO (NO*), yet the reduced form of NO (NO-) is also produced endogenously and is a potent vasodilator of large conduit arteries. The effects of NO- in the resistance vasculature remain unknown. This study examines the activity of NO- ...

Nowadays, crop insufficiency resulting from soil salinization is threatening the world. On basis that has become a worldwide problem, studying mechanisms of plant salt tolerance great theoretical and practical significance to improve yield, cultivate new salt-tolerant varieties, make full use saline land. Based on previous studies, this paper reviews damage stress plants, including suppression ...

Selenium (Se) at high concentrations can cause toxic effects in plants, whereas at low concentrations it enhances resistance to certain abiotic stresses. The possible mechanisms of the Se-enhanced tolerance of plants to salinity stress remain elusive. In this work, effect of Se supplementation at 0, 0.1, 1 and 10 mg l-1 sodium selenate was studied in Lallemantia iberica plants subjected to salt...

An apparatus that integrates solid-state nanopore ionic current measurement with a scanning-probe microscope is developed. When a micrometer-scale scanning-probe tip is near a voltage-biased nanometer-scale pore (10–100 nm), the tip partially blocks the flow of ions to the pore and increases the pore access resistance. The apparatus records the current blockage caused by the probe tip and the l...

A salt-extractable low-molecular-weight fraction has been held responsible for the resistance of cartilage to invasion by malignant cells. To test this hypothesis, we have confronted in vitro fragments from bovine articular cartilage, from bovine nasal septum, from chick embryonic tibia, or from human knee meniscus with cells from the following malignant lines: LICR-HN-4 human squamous cell car...