Publications by authors named "Jose Manuel Palma"
Plant survival to a potential plethora of diverse environmental insults is underpinned by coordinated communication amongst organs to help shape effective responses to these environmental challenges at the whole plant level. This interorgan communication is supported by a complex signal network that regulates growth, development and environmental responses. Nitric oxide (NO) has emerged as a key signalling molecule in plants.
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- Scientists studied how grafting tomato plants with special fungi (called AM fungi) helps them survive tough conditions caused by dry olive waste.
- They found that these fungi make the plants grow better even when the waste is present, even though it can hurt the plants at first.
- The AM fungi also help the plants fight off damage by boosting their ability to protect themselves from stress, which is good for their overall health and growth.
Organic wastes such as sewage sludge have been successfully used to increase crop productivity of horticultural soils. Nevertheless, considerations of the impact of sludges on vegetable and fruit quality have received little attention. Therefore, the objective of the present work was to investigate the impact of two sanitized sewage sludges, autothermal thermophilic aerobic digestion (ATAD) and compost sludge, on the growth, yield, and fruit quality of pepper plants ( Capsicum annuum L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in 80 domestic cats was studied in the city of Colima, Mexico, using an indirect IgG-ELISA. Antibodies were found in 28.8% of the cats, with significantly higher (P = 0.
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