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Paul Cockson, Hunter Landis, Turner Smith, Kristin Hicks and Brian E. Whipker
Essential plant nutrients are needed at crop-specific concentrations to obtain optimum growth or yield. Plant tissue (foliar) analysis is the standard method for measuring those levels in crops. Symptoms of nutrient deficiency occur when those tissue con...
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Rob M. Stevens, Joanne M. Pech and Gary J. Grigson
Previous work has shown that a short non-saline sprinkling, following saline sprinkling, increased crop growth. We incorporated this finding into an investigation of two approaches to the conjunctive use of saline and non-saline water sources for sprinkl...
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Monika Sawicka, Piotr Latocha and Barbara Lata
More than ten thousand apple cultivars with high variability in the quality traits and year-round availability place apples at the forefront of consumed fruits. Yet consumers and producers alike are still looking for new apple cultivars with specific qua...
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Lorena Basso, Paride Papadia, Lucia Rizzo, Danilo Migoni, Francesco P. Fanizzi and Stefano Piraino
Jellyfish as food represent a millennial tradition in Asia. Recently, jellyfish have also been proposed as a valuable source of protein in Western countries. To identify health risks associated with the potential human consumption of jellyfish as food, t...
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Reep Pandi Tasho, Song-Hee Ryu and Jae-Young Cho
(1) Background: Plants act as the natural sink for a variety of toxins in the environment, including veterinary antibiotics (VAs). The objective of this study was to evaluate the uptake and fate of sulfadimethoxine (SDZ), oxytetracycline (OTC), and strep...
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Xuexia Huang, Dinggui Luo, Dongye Zhao, Ning Li, Tangfu Xiao, Jingyong Liu, Lezhang Wei, Yu Liu, Lirong Liu and Guowei Liu
A total of 43 water and sediment samples, and 34 Corbicula fluminea samples were collected in Xijiang River in southern China to determine the spatial distribution and sources of 12 metals/metalloids (V, Co, Cr, Ni, Cu, Mn, Zn, Cd, Pb, As, Sb, and Tl) an...
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M. G. D. K. Bandara,M.R. Wijesinghe,W. D. Ratnasooriya,A. A. H. Priyani
This paper reports the histopathological responses of the gill, liver and tail muscle tissues in tadpoles of the Asian Common Toad Duttaphrynus melanostictus (Schneider, 1799) exposed to chlorpyrifos a common organophosphorus pesticide. Tadpoles of Gosne...
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Deacqunita L. Harris, Darryl B. Hood and Aramandla Ramesh
The objective of this study was to evaluate how the vehicles of choice affect the pharmacokinetics of orally administered Fluoranthene [FLA] in rats. Fluoranthene is a member of the family of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon chemicals. Fluoranthene exposu...
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Koot Reinecke, Werner Schoeman, Sophié Reinecke
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Due to the availability and chemical nature of some heavy metals, sub-lethal toxicant levels may persist in the ocean waters and may cause physiological problems and toxicity in invertebrates and other marine organisms. Although studies of metal c...
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Koot Reinecke, Werner Schoeman, Sophié Reinecke
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Due to the availability and chemical nature of some heavy metals, sub-lethal toxicant levels may persist in the ocean waters and may cause physiological problems and toxicity in invertebrates and other marine organisms. Although studies of metal c...
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Gloria Bellin, Chiara Gardin, Letizia Ferroni, Paolo Ghensi, Barbara Zavan and Marco Tatullo
Applied phytochemistry can improve the translational tissue engineering, by selective triggering of specific biological processes, ensuring a low impact on cell viability and the overall biocompatibility. Better knowledge of the synergic action of saponi...
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Claudia Alvarado, Diego M. Cortez-Valladolid, Enrique J. Herrera-López, Ximena Godínez and José Martín Ramírez
Aquaculture offers great potential for fish production in Lake Chapala, but reports of heavy metal contamination in fish have identified a main concern for this activity. In the present study, cultures of the species Cyprinus carpio and Ictalurus punctat...
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Thawanrat Kobkeatthawin, Sanya Sirivithayapakorn, Thongchai Nitiratsuwan, Dudsadee Muenhor, Pei-Sun Loh and Siriporn Pradit
The present study determined the metal levels in surface sediment and in soft tissue of the Strombus canarium at Libong Island, Thailand, and estimated the possible risk from consuming the shellfish. The mean concentrations of the metals Fe, Cu, Co, Pb, ...
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Adriana Petrovici, Stefan-Adrian Strungaru, Mircea Nicoara, Madalina Andreea Robea, Carmen Solcan and Caterina Faggio
Deltamethrin is responsible for health and reproduction problems both in mammals and aquatic organisms. In this study, zebrafish adults were exposed for 15 days to 0.25, 0.5, 1, and 2 µg L-1 non-lethal concentrations of deltamethrin, knowing that is used...
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Carlos A. Stuepp, Ivar Wendling, Stephen J. Trueman, Henrique S. Koehler and Katia C. Zuffellato-Ribas
Qualitative and quantitative hormone analyses have been essential for understanding the metabolic, physiological, and morphological processes that are influenced by plant hormones. Auxins are key hormones in the control of many aspects of plant growth an...
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Sebastian Beggel, Mariana Hinzmann, Jorge Machado, Juergen Geist
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Nitrogen compounds, particularly ammonia, and temperature are suspected major stressors for aquatic organisms, but little is known about their impact on globally declining freshwater mussels (Unionoida). In this study, we tested the combined effects of a...
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Alberto Gutiérrez, Enrique Lozano-Bilbao, Ángel J. Gutiérrez-Fernández, Soraya Paz-Montelongo, Dailos González-Weller, Carmen Rubio-Armendáriz, Daniel Niebla-Canelo, Samuel Alejandro-Vega and Arturo Hardisson
The objective of this study was to study whether the metal concentrations in Sparisoma cretense and Serranus atricauda differ between different coastal areas around the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands and to study whether these species are good bioind...
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Yundong Li, Shigui Jiang, Hongdi Fan, Qibin Yang, Song Jiang, Jianhua Huang, Lishi Yang, Wenwen Zhang, Xu Chen and Falin Zhou
Na+/H+-exchanger (NHE) assumes a significant part in different particle transport in creatures. A clone of Penaeus monodon NHE cDNA was examined in this study (PmNHE), and its impact on high-concentration ammonia nitrogen stress was researched. The 877-a...
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Matthew Mold, Agata Chmielecka, Maria Raquel Ramirez Rodriguez, Femia Thom, Caroline Linhart, Andrew King and Christopher Exley
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a devastating and debilitating neurodegenerative disease of unknown cause. A consensus suggests the involvement of both genetic and environmental factors of which the latter may involve human exposure to aluminium. There are no...
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Suzel del Carmen Ríos-Ramírez,José Raymundo Enríquez-del Valle,Gerardo Rodríguez Ortiz,Judith Ruíz-Luna
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Today, a micropropagation method for Agave angustifolia exists, but for the multiplication of propagules, more information is needed on the diverse components of the culture medium, cytokinins and auxins and their effect on organogenetic response. The ob...
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