Environmental stresses experienced by individual parents can influence offspring phenotypes in ways that enhance survival under similar conditions. Although such adaptive transgenerational plasticity is well documented, its transmission mechanisms are generally unknown. One possible mechanism is environmentally induced DNA methylation changes. We tested this hypothesis in the annual plant Polyg...

As plants have been shown to accumulate organic compounds from contaminated sediments, there is a potential for long-lasting ecological impact as a result of contaminant accumulation in riparian areas of wetlands, particularly the accumulation of non-biodegradable contaminants such as perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). In this study, commonly found riparian wetland plants including reeds, i.e., Xan...

The article presents the results of analysis species composition, biomorphological and ecological features, frequency occurrence meadow medicinal plants in vicinity Holoborodkivske village, Poltava district, region. In this area, 34 belonging to 32 genera, 17 families, 3 classes 2 divisions were identified. Representatives two common: Equisetophyta (1 or 2,9% total) Magnoliophyta (33 97,1%), wi...

Seed production is an important element of weed population dynamics, and persistence relies upon the soil seed bank. In 2017 2018, we studied relationship between aboveground dry biomass common species their production. Weeds were selected randomly in fields, surrounded plants with a porous net to collect shed seeds during growth season. Just before crop harvest, weeds harvested, plants’ weight...

In this study, the identity and distribution of plants and the structure of their associated rhizobacterial communities were examined in an oil-contaminated site. The number of plant species that formed a community or were scattered was 24. The species living in soil highly contaminated with total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) (9,000-4,5000 mg/g-soil) were Cynodon dactylon, Persicaria lapathifoli...