Abstract In recent years the quest for a circular economy approach and upcycling of secondary raw materials have been pushed in global political agenda. Increased interest has taken by recovery from sludges, brines, contaminated waters other media, all included larger umbrella identified as “low-grade” mineralisation. Contaminated soils an interesting role this process, various methodologies de...

We describe a new grass species, Agrostis swalalahos, endemic to several peaks in the northwestern Coast Range of Clatsop County, Oregon, U.S.A.

Concerns about genetically modified (GM) crops include transgene flow to compatible wild species and unintended ecological consequences of potential transgene introgression. However, there has been little empirical documentation of establishment and distribution of transgenic plants in wild populations. We present herein the first evidence for escape of transgenes into wild plant populations wi...

MicroRNA528 (miR528) is a conserved monocot-specific small RNA that has the potential of mediating multiple stress responses. So far, however, experimental functional studies of miR528 are lacking. Here, we report that overexpression of the rice (Oryza sativa) miR528 (Osa-miR528) in transgenic creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.)

Respiration is a major avenue of carbohydrates loss. The objective of the present study was to examine root respiratory characteristics associated with root tolerance to high soil temperature for two Agrostis species: thermal Agrostis scabra, a species adapted to high-temperature soils in geothermal areas in Yellowstone National Park, and two cultivars ('L-93' and 'Penncross') of a cool-season ...