Salinity tolerance in plant species varies widely due to adaptation and acclimation processes at the cellular and whole-plant scales. In mangroves, extreme substrate salinity induces hydraulic failure and ion excess toxicity and reduces growth and survival, thus suggesting a potentially critical role for physiological acclimation to salinity. We tested the hypothesis that osmotic adjustment, a ...

Pot experiments were conducted to evaluate the damaging effects of salinity on Sesbania sesban plants in the presence and absence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). The selected morphological, physiological and biochemical parameters of S. sesban were measured. Salinity reduced growth and chlorophyll content drastically while as AMF inoculated plants improved growth. A decrease in the numbe...

Salinity is an ecological factor affecting the physiology, survival, and distribution of crustaceans. Additionally, salinity fluctuation detrimentally affects composition biological process As a significant commercial aquaculture species in China, Japan, Southeast Asian countries, oriental river prawn, Macrobrachium nipponense, can tolerate wide range salinity. The transcriptome, proteome, hist...

In general Pakistan is an agricultural country, most of its area including lower Indus basin (LIB) lies in arid and semi-arid zones, where irrigation by canal water and groundwater is only option. Due to continuous seepage from canal irrigation network and infiltration from irrigated lands; without adequate provision of natural and artificial drainage and its appropriate outlet, water-logging a...

A Gram-positive short rod isolated from a saline soil in China was characterized using a polyphasic approach. This actinobacterium grew over a wide salinity range [0-15 % NaCl, 0-20 % KCl and 0-30 % (MgCl2).6H2O (w/v); optimum concentrations for growth were 5 % NaCl, 5-10 % KCl, 10 % (MgCl2).6H2O]. The optimum growth temperature and pH were 28-30 degrees C and 7.0-8.0, respectively. Chemotaxono...

Published researches about the pretreatment of exit wastewater from desalination units are rare. Nowadays, lake of potable water, development of industries and population growth, extend desalination units. Although desalination units have been grown up, but exit brine stream is usually drained into the sea ecosystem [1-4]. Moreover, annually a large quantity of concentrated brine is discharged ...

Surface salinity variations and processes affecting surface salinity in the high-salinity region of the subtropical North Atlantic (the SPURS-1 area) are investigated by combining data from in situ observations and satellite remote-sensing measurements. On temporal average, the surface freshwater flux term (evaporation minus precipitation) in the SPURS-1 region increases mixed-layer salinity. O...

Abstract. Soil salinity, a significant environmental indicator, is considered one of the leading causes land degradation, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. In many cases, this major threat leads to loss arable land, reduces crop productivity, groundwater resources loss, increases economic costs for soil management, ultimately probability erosion. Monitoring salinity distribution degree ...

Chemical oil recovery from offshore reservoirs which are usually characterised by harsh conditions such as high salinities have remained a source of concern. This study assesses chemical compatibilities alkalis –surfactant systems under salinity and divalent ions (Ca2+ Mg2+). It analysed the synergy between alkali-surfactant slugs crude oil, leading to design an optimal low-cost alkaline- surfa...

An obligately anaerobic, spore-forming, moderately acid-tolerant bacterium, strain JW/YJL-B3T, was isolated from a sediment sample from a constructed wetland system receiving acid sulfate water. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, the isolate belonged to the Firmicutes branch with Clostridium drakei SL1T (96.2 % gene sequence similarity) as its closest relative. The G+C content of the gen...