The response of rice plants to inoculation with an arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus, Azospirillum brasilense, or combination of both microorganisms, was assayed under well-watered or drought stress conditions. Water deficit treatment was imposed by reducing the amount of water added, but AM plants, with a significantly higher biomass, received the same amount of water as non-AM plants, with a...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of two important factors: light and water availability on the leaf characteristics and the growth of plants. Seedlings of Quercus suber were grown under controlled conditions (greenhouse) with three light treatments (100, 27 and 3 % of incident light, open, shade and deep shade; respectively) and with daily irrigation. Since middle spring, one...

Organic residues (compost) can be used as growth medium but may contain phytotoxic ions that, combined with a water deficit alter the behavior of plants. The experiment was carried out in chamber Cistus albidus commercial substrate, C (sphagnum peat, coconut fiber and perlite, 8:7:1) mixture compost substrates, Cp (slurry compost, 3:6:1). Plants were grown pots under well-watered, maintaining v...

increasing water use efficiency is one of the cases to arrivance to the stability production. in order to estimation and comparison of water use efficiency among crop species including corn, safflower, sesame ,and medicinal species including hemp, marsh mallow, white mallow. an experiment was conducted during 2009 growing seasons in the agriculture research station ferdowsi of mashhad. the expe...

Leaf area, chlorophyll content, net CO(2) photoassimilation, and the partitioning of fixed carbon between leaf sucrose and starch and soluble protein were examined in Glycine max (L) Merr. cv Williams grown under three different nitrogen regimes. One group (Nod+/+) was inoculated with Bradyrhizobium and watered daily with a nutrient solution containing 6 millimolar NH(4)NO(3). A second set (Nod...

Urban green infrastructures offer thermal regulation to mitigate urban heat island effects. To gain a better understanding of the cooling ability transpiring plants at leaf level, we developed method measure time series data with miniaturized, uncalibrated infrared camera. We examined canopy temperature four characteristic living wall (Heuchera x cultorum, Bergenia cordifolia, Geranium sanguine...