Growth promotion and protection from drought in Eucalyptus grandis seedlings inoculated with beneficial bacteria embedded in a superabsorbent polymer.

Eucalyptus grandis is a globally important tree crop. Greenhouse-grown tree seedlings often face water deficit after outplanting to the field, which can affect their survival and establishment severely. This can be alleviated by the application of superabsorbent hydrophilic polymers (SAPs).

Detection of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated with pecan () trees by molecular and morphological approaches.

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal community associated with pecan () roots and rhizospheric soils was assessed by spore isolation and morphological characterisation and by pyrosequencing of AM molecular markers. The AM fungal community associated with pecan growing in the field, was always more diverse than that associated with pecan growing in containers. This was not observed when AM richness was studied, suggesting that soil disturbance by a reduction in host plant richness leads to a less equitable distribution of AM fungal species, in contrast to natural soils.

A New Hysteroscopic Risk Scoring System for Diagnosing Endometrial Hyperplasia and Adenocarcinoma.

Study Objective: To develop a new hysteroscopic morphologic scoring system that helps physicians, especially those who have less experience, to make a differential diagnosis among normal endometrium (NE), endometrial hyperplasia, and endometrial carcinoma.

Design: A retrospective study (Canadian Task Force Classification II).

Setting: An office hysteroscopy service.

Medium pH, carbon and nitrogen concentrations modulate the phosphate solubilization efficiency of Penicillium purpurogenum through organic acid production.

Aims: To study phosphate solubilization in Penicillium purpurogenum as function of medium pH, and carbon and nitrogen concentrations.

Methods And Results: Tricalcium phosphate (CP) solubilization efficiency of P. purpurogenum was evaluated at acid or alkaline pH using different C and N sources.

Edelfosine protects precultured heart fragments against the invasion of malignant cells through altered sialylation.

1-O-octadecyl-2-O-methylglycero-3-phosphocholine (ET-18-OMe)-treated precultured heart fragments (PHF) are resistant to the invasion of malignant cells. Previous studies have demonstrated that this effect is due to the alterations of the N-linked glycoproteins in PHF after 48-h ET-18-OMe treatment. Moreover, the observed effect was still present seven days after ET-18-OMe was omitted.