Recent years have witnessed major advances in our knowledge of plant mutualistic symbioses such as the rhizobium-legume symbiosis (RLS) and arbuscular mycorrhizas (AM). Some of these findings caused the revision of longstanding hypotheses, but one of the most solid theories is that a conserved set of plant proteins rules the transduction of symbiotic signals from beneficial glomeromycetes and r...

1. Environmental variables that positively affect one aspect of plant fitness, may have no effect, or even negatively affect some other component of fitness. 2. Using individuals of Achillea millefolium grown under field conditions in Michigan, USA, the hypothesis was tested that seed number was determined largely by plant biomass, while seed germination success depends on tissue nutrient conce...

Dipteryx alata Vogel (Fabaceae) is a fruit tree species native to the Cerrado with ecological and economic potential. However, water deficit can be limiting factor initial growth of this species, requiring knowledge on technologies that alleviate stressful effect. We hypothesized inoculation arbuscular mycorrhizae fungi contributes stress mitigation during after deficit. D. seedlings were subje...

Monitoring the dynamics of spore bank arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) is essential for sustainable management and protection agroecosystems. The most common method extracting AMF spores from soil wet-sieving technique (WST). However, this has many disadvantages. In study, we modified WST using new approaches: ultrasound (UWST) centrifuge (UCT). We enumerated compared numbers quality obtained...

Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. ex Roem. & Schult. commonly known as ‘West Indian Chick weed’ is a potential herb used in traditional medicine the treatment of many ailments. The main active principles therapeutically are drymaritin and isovitexin. Arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM) symbiotic associations between plants soil fungi that play vital role plant growth development well quality. In present...

Pollution of the soil environment with toxic materials from fossil burning, mining and smelting of metalliferous ores, disposal of sewage, fertilizers and pesticides, etc. has increased dramatically since the onset of industrial revolution. Application of plants with ability of absorbing heavy metals is a low-cost alternative for eliminating soils from heavy metals. Phytoremediation uses plants...