Wheat/soybean rotation is an important double-cropping system in the Huang-Huai-Hai plain of China. Continuous soybean cropping could cause soil quality deterioration and plant growth inhibition. However, effects continuous wheat/soybean on rhizosphere microbes remain largely unknown. In this study, we compared yield microbial community between winter wheat/summer (W/S) with two harvests one ye...

Two high mountain plants Soldanella alpina (L.) and Ranunculus glacialis (L.) were transferred from their natural environment to two different growth conditions (22 degrees C and 6 degrees C) at low elevation in order to investigate the possibility of de-acclimation to light and cold and the importance of antioxidants and metabolite levels. The results were compared with the lowland crop plant ...

Conventional irrigation methods decrease greenhouse soil aeration, which leads to restricted root growth and reduced fungal abundance in grapes. In this study, aerated equipment was used investigate the effects of on biomass accumulation, growth, community structure grape seedlings. The results show that significantly increased length, surface area, volume, number tips by 38.5%, 32.1%, 62.1%, 2...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Sporophytic self-incompatibility (SI) prevents inbreeding in many members of the Brassicaceae, and has been well documented in a variety of high-profile species. Arabis alpina is currently being developed as a model system for studying the ecological genetics of arctic-alpine environments, and is the focus of numerous studies on population structure and alpine phylogeography...

Most land plants live in association with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and rely on this symbiosis to scavenge phosphorus (P) from soil. The ability to establish this partnership has been lost in some plant lineages like the Brassicaceae, which raises the question of what alternative nutrition strategies such plants have to grow in P-impoverished soils. To understand the contribution of pla...