The long-term use of copper (Cu) fungicides in viticulture Europe has led to Cu accumulation vineyard top soils. However, less is known about the grapevine grafts after callusing process/before planting nursery. This paper presents capacity 5BB and SO4 rootstocks accumulate Cu, as well patterns translocation grafts. After heat forcing (callusing), Sauvignon Blanc on were grown pots for six mont...

The aim of the present study was to measure lanthanum (La), cerium (Ce), europium (Eu), and gadolinium (Gd) concentrations in human semen and correlate the results with sperm quality. The median semen content of La was 19.5 µg kg(-1) dry weight (dw) (range 2.27-269), of Ce was 41.9 µg kg(-1) dw (range 4.52 to 167), of Eu was 0.68 µg kg(-1) dw (range 0.06-1.95), of Gd was 3.19 µg kg(-1) dw (rang...

Lawns achieve environmental, functional, and aesthetical roles in urban environments. The objectives of this research were to assess the effect different salinity levels on Trichoderma isolates study spp. perennial ryegrass under salinity. T. harzianum (ThLem2017-01) atroviride (TaDP2019-01) had a higher mycelium growth rate than (TaDP2019-02) when low. In contrast, isolate at high superior res...

Remote sensing can support dune ecosystem conservation. Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UAS) equipped with multispectral cameras provide information for identifying different vegetation species, including Carpobrotus edulis—one of the most prominent alien species in Portuguese ecosystems. This work investigates use UAS C. edulis identification and biomass estimation. A a five-band camera was used ...

Renewable materials including coir, biochar, and composts are investigated worldwide in the horticultural industry to partially substitute peat growing media. In this study, we assessed effects of biochar vermicompost as partial substitution compared these peat-based media with coir terms NH 4 + -N NO 3 − content, CO 2 -C N O-N emissions their microbial biomass carbon nitrogen. Six mixtures (pe...

Drought stress and phosphorus (P) deficit decrease soybean P nitrogen (N) accumulation, which limits productivity. Therefore, traits related to N uptake and/or their efficient utilization are important for adaptation P- water-deficit conditions. We hypothesize that increasing nodulation enhance uptake, improving use efficiency (PUE NUE) the of drought low To test this hypothesis, we selected fo...

To simultaneously quantify and profile the complex mixture of short-, median-, and long-chain CPs (SCCPs, MCCPs, and LCCPs) in Australian sewage sludge, we applied and further validated a recently developed novel instrumental technique, using quadrupole time-of-flight high resolution mass spectrometry running in the negative atmospheric pressure chemical ionization mode (APCI-qTOF-HRMS). Withou...

In this study, wild hatched eggshells were collected from the nests of threatened Wattled Crane and South Ground-Hornbill in an attempt to determine their total Hg concentrations. A total of fourteen eggshell samples from both bird species were collected from different study areas in the Mpumlanga and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces of South Africa. The eggshells were acid digested under reflux and the...

This study investigated the compositions and distributions of pesticides buried at five sites in Tanzania. Samples were collected from various depths up to 220 cm. The analytes in samples were extracted by pressurized fluid extraction. Labelled internal standards were used for identification and quantification. Clean-up of extracts was conducted by using column chromatographic techniques. Deter...

The optimization of submerged culture of the culinary-medicinal golden oyster mushroom, Pleurotus citrinopileatus, was studied using a one-factor-at-a-time, two-stage stimulation and central composite rotatable design to produce mycelia with high ergothioneine content. The optimal culture conditions for mycelia harvested at day 22 were a temperature of 25°C, an inoculation ratio of 5%, 2% gluco...