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Ewa Stanczyk-Mazanek, Longina Stepniak and Urszula Kepa
In this paper, we discuss the effect sewage sludge (SS) application has on the contamination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in fertilized soils and groundwater. Morver, the contents of these compounds in plant biomass was analyzed. For six months, c...
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Alexios Lolas, Aikaterini Molla, Konstantinos Georgiou, Chrysoula Apostologamvrou, Alexandra Petrotou and Konstantinos Skordas
Mussel shells, with their calcium carbonate content, serve as a natural pH buffer, aiding in neutralizing acidic soils and, consequently, enhancing nutrient availability for plants. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of treating soils with ...
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Davide Farruggia, Noemi Tortorici, Nicolò Iacuzzi, Federica Alaimo, Claudio Leto and Teresa Tuttolomondo
Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) is an evergreen and a xerophytic shrub that is frequently employed in culinary, decorative, and industrial applications. It shows significant variations in biomass and essential oil (EO) yield due to effects of biotic...
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Sandra Afonso, Juliana Nogueira, Carlos Cavaleiro, Fernanda M. L. Ferreira and Matilde Moreira-Santos
Essential oils (EOs) from Thymus mastichina (EO-thyme) and Helichrysum italicum (EO-curry) have wide commercial applications, but little is known about their ecotoxicity to aquatic life. We evaluated the lethal toxicity of both EOs toward standard freshw...
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Dario Macaluso, Francesco Licciardo and Katya Carbone
In recent years, the primary sector in Italy and elsewhere has been profoundly affected by climate change and a deep economic crisis, mainly linked to stagnating prices and rising production costs. Because of this situation, we are witnessing renewed int...
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Mubarak T. Al-Otaibi, Ahmed I. Rushdi, Najeeb Rasul, Abdulqader Bazeyad, Khalid F. Al-Mutlaq, Saud S. Aloud and Hattan A. Alharbi
Surface sediment samples from Al-Qahma lagoon in the southern part and Al-Wajh lagoon in the northern part of the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia were collected by a Van Veen grab sampler to determine the characteristics, distribution, and sources of aliph...
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Antonios Chrysargyris and Nikolaos Tzortzakis
Plant residues derived from the agro-industrial sector and their disposal are still unsolved issues despite the various research and applications. The current study assessed the possible peat substitution in growing media with solid residues derived from...
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Christina Chaski, Kyriakos D. Giannoulis, Alexios A. Alexopoulos and Spyridon A. Petropoulos
The scarcity of water is limiting crop production and is one of the most important stressors that severely affects crop yield, and it may also decrease the quality of the final products. Most of the medicinal and aromatic plants are considered resilient ...
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Daniel Bañón, María Fernanda Ortuño, María Jesús Sánchez-Blanco, Beatriz Lorente Pagán and Sebastián Bañón
Plant growth regulators (PGRs) are commonly used in horticulture to improve crop quality, save water, and enhance plant resilience to stress. In this study, we examined the effects of two PGRs, paclobutrazol (PBZ) and mepiquat chloride (MC), on the growt...
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Victor Chaplygin, Tamara Dudnikova, Saglara Mandzhieva, Tatiana Minkina, Anatoly Barakhov, Dina Nevidomskaya, Vishnu Rajput, Yuri Litvinov, Marina Burachevskaya, Natalia Chernikova, Olga Nazarenko, Andrey Barbashev and Svetlana Sushkova
Based on 10 years of environmental monitoring located around the emission zone of an electricity supplier, the main regularities have been studied for the content of heavy metals (HMs), such as Pb, Cd, Zn, Cu, Ni, Mn, and Cr, and 16 priority polycyclic a...
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