The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology was applied to identify the potential environmental impact of dredged sediments used as growing media for food crops. came from Livorno port and were previously phytoremediated. For assay, strawberry plants (Fragaria x ananassa Duch vr. ‘San Andreas’) used. cultivated on three different substrates (100% peat, 100% sediment 50% mix peat/sediment) real ...

the objective of the present study is to investigate the impact of spraying boric acid on vegetative and reproductive growth of ‘camarosa’ strawberry (fragaria × ananassa duch.). the strawberry plants were sprayed with boric acid at 0 (control), 50 and 100 mg l-1 at 30 days after planting. in general, results indicated that spraying plants with boric acid had a significant effect on yield, frui...

Application of Fe salts with different organic matter sources has been demonstrated to be effective in preventing Fe deficiency chlorosis. The main objective of this work was to study the effectiveness of different Fe sources based on mixtures of humic substances or compost with vivianite in preventing this nutritional disorder in strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa cv Camarosa). To this end, a ran...

Cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) is one of the most important berry crops worldwide. Its wild relative, woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca L.) is also scientifically important, since recent development of molecular tools including genetic transformation methods, genetic maps and genome sequence is making it as one of the leading perennial model plants. Environmental regulation...

Industrial treated wastewater (TWW) could be an attractive alternative fto fresh water use in agriculture due to the shortage resource especially Mediterranean region. Furthermore, TWW represent efficient substitute for crop production thanks its high load nutrient. However, content of salts or mineral as well organic pollutants can affect safety, productivity and growth. A simple way reduce am...

The wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca) has recently emerged as an excellent model for cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) as well as other Rosaceae fruit crops due to its short seed-to-fruit cycle, diploidy, and sequenced genome. Deep sequencing and parallel analysis of RNA ends were used to identify F. vesca microRNAs (miRNAs) and their target genes, respectively. Thirty-eight novel and ...