Studies of the future competitiveness of reverse electrodialysis (RED) with other energy technologies show that the projected levelized cost of electricity realized through current stack designs is prohibitively high. Despite these high projected costs, RED maintains other advantages namely, the harnessing of a renewable and non-intermittent energy resource, the emissions-free operation, the di...

Soil and water salinity are the most important problems that limit crop production, especially in the arid and semi-arid regions. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of growth-promoting bacteria and selenium nanoparticle pretreatment on increasing the tolerance of the Chenopodium quinoa plant to salinity. A factorial experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design with...

Disturbances and environmental change are important factors determining the diversity, composition, and functioning of communities. However, knowledge about how natural bacterial communities are affected by such perturbations is still sparse. We performed a whole ecosystem manipulation experiment with freshwater rock pools where we applied salinity disturbances of different intensities. The aim...

Salinity gradient power (SGP) systems have strong potential to generate sustainable clean electricity for 24 hours. Here, we introduce a solid-salt pressureretarded osmosis (PRO) system using crystal salt powders rather than seawater. Solid salts have advantages such as a small storage volume, controllable solubility, high Gibbs dissolution energy, and a single type of water intake, low pretrea...

In order to investigate the effect of drought and salinity stress on caper plant (Capparis spinosa), a factorial experiment including two factors consisting of drought and salinity levels based on randomized complete block design (RCBD) with five blocks were carried out at College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. After pretreatment, seeds were germinated in petri dishes and then...

• Soil C and N contents salinity were accurately predicted using VNIRS (RPD > 2) content was best PLSR by class on log-transformed values. locally weighted Salinity global without log-transformation. Spectrum pretreatment optimization depended the variable type. organic carbon (C) nitrogen (N) have an essential role in soil fertility, but they may be affected salinity, which is especially respo...

Salinity is a dominant obstacle to the proper germination of seeds, growth seedlings, and, consequently, production crops. The priming seeds with different treating agents can efficiently impart salinity tolerance. Kidney bean nutritious and popular vegetable crop in world. Literature shows that salt stress negatively disturbs kidney beans. In present research, we investigated potentiality sali...

Trihoderma citrinoviride protects plants from diseases by functioning as antagonists of many pathogenic fungi or triggering the antioxidant defense system in plants. In present study, to uncover possible alleviative role Trichoderma against salinity and Rhizoctonia solani infection, strawberry were pretreated then subjected salinity, R. combined solani. The effect T. on alleviation effects salt...