This experiment was conducted to explore the reasons of difference between ‘Zard’ olive orchard with the poor vegetative growth rate and fruit set and orchard with suitable vegetative growth rate and fruit set in relation to some soil and plant factors during two seasons. Note that assumptions were based on the overall canopy greenness of the olive trees, so experimental orchards in which the p...

Article History Received on:30-01-2015 Revised on:15-02-2014 Accepted on:24-02-2014 ABSTRACT A gram positive, motile, strictly anaerobic bacterium was isolated from the sediment samples of Vellar estuary, India and was identified as Clostridium sp. by biochemical methods. The organism was found to be resistant only to erythromycin among the various antibiotics tested. The culture supernatant wa...

Laboratory experiments and field trials have shown that oil recovery from carbonate reservoirs can be increased by modifying the brine composition injected during recovery in a process termed controlled salinity water-flooding (CSW). However, CSW remains poorly understood and there is no method to predict the optimum CSW composition. This work demonstrates for the first time that improved oil r...

Pond water is the main source of irrigation in Sundarbans area West Bengal. The serious issues faced agricultural lands and ponds are due to salinity. As salinity cannot be detected on high scales through satellite images, this study remotely sensed turbidity has been compared studied with laboratory-measured high-resolution Sentinel-2 MSI data optimum bands for quality detection have used stud...

Seagrass is one of the important ecosystems and habitats for marine organisms. Thalassia hemprichii seagrass species in Kabung Island Waters. Studies on ecosystem conditions must be carried out as initial information integrated aquatic management. Analysis includes density coverage percentage. data was collected using line transect method with a length 50 cm quadrants 1 m x perpendicular to coa...

Soil salinity is a major constraint to crop growth and yield. The primary and lateral roots of Arabidopsis thaliana are known to respond differentially to a number of environmental stresses, including salinity. Although the maize root system as a whole is known to be sensitive to salinity, whether or not different structural root systems show differential growth responses to salinity stress has...

The effect of salinity on the photoinduced toxicity of waterborne fluoranthene to larvae of the grass shrimp (Palaemonetes pugio) and tubificid oligochaete worms (Monopylephorus rubroniveus) was studied in a laboratory system under simulated sunlight. In the grass shrimp toxicity tests, five concentrations of fluoranthene (0, 3.6, 7.3, 13.8, and 29.0 microg/L) and four salinities (6.9, 14.5, 21...

Interannual salinity variations in North Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water (STMW) are well known although the cause is less well understood. Attempts to model local salinity variation with local evaporation and precipitation have not been successful and some authors invoke advection of low salinity water as the cause. Examination of the STMW and North American river runoff data suggests that runo...

Estuaries are dynamic environments at the land-sea interface that are strongly affected by interannual climate variability. Ocean-atmosphere processes propagate into estuaries from the sea, and atmospheric processes over land propagate into estuaries from watersheds. We examined the effects of these two separate climate-driven processes on pelagic and demersal fish community structure along the...

Cytosine methylation is a well recognized epigenetic mark. Here, the methylation status of a salinity-tolerant wheat cultivar (cv. SR3, derived from a somatic hybridization event) and its progenitor parent (cv. JN177) was explored both globally and within a set of 24 genes responsive to salinity stress. A further comparison was made between DNA extracted from plants grown under control conditio...