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Mycorrhiza
March 2022
Programa de Investigación de Producción de Biomoléculas, Departamento de Biología Molecular and Biotecnología, Unidad de Bioprocesos, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. AP. 70228, México D.F., CP. 04510. Av. Universidad 3000, Cd. Universitaria, Coyoacán, 04510, Ciudad de México, México.
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are obligate biotrophs, and the difficulty of growing them in asymbiotic or monoxenic (AMF + root) conditions limits research and their large-scale production as biofertilizer. We hypothesized that a combination of flavanols and strigolactones can mimic complex root signaling during the presymbiotic stages of AMF. We evaluated the germination, mycelial growth, branching, and auxiliary cell clusters formation by Gigaspora margarita during the presymbiotic stage in the presence (or absence) of transformed Cichorium intybus roots in basal culture medium enriched with glucose, a flavonol (quercetin or biochanin A) and a strigolactone analogue (1-Methyl-2-oxindole or indole propionic acid).
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February 2019
Université Clermont Auvergne, Institut Pascal, UMR, CNRS 6602, and Labex, IMobS3, 4 Avenue Blaise Pascal, TSA 60026, CS 60026, F-63178 Aubiere Cedex, France.
Inulin is a naturally occurring second largest storage polysaccharide with a wide range of applications in pharmaceutical and food industries. It is a robust polysaccharide which consists of a linear chain of β-2, 1-linked-d-fructofuranose molecules terminated with α-d-glucose moiety at the reducing end. It is present in tubers, bulbs and tuberous roots of more than 36,000 plants belonging to both monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous families.
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June 2015
a Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Engineering , College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz , Iran.
To evaluate the effect of salt stress on seed germination, early growth, antioxidant enzymes activity and ABA content of chicory ecotypes (Cichorium intybus) a factorial experiment was conducted at College of Agriculture, Shiraz University in 2014 based on completely randomized design with four replications. The treatments comprised five salinity levels (tapwater, 3, 6, 9, 12 dS m(-1)) of sodium chloride on Shirazi-black and white chicory ecotypes. The results showed that germination characteristics and primary seedling growth were decreased in both ecotypes with increasing in salinity severity.
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March 2016
Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt.
The ability of Cichorium intybus root extract (chicory extract) to protect against carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced oxidative stress and hepatotoxicity was evaluated in male rats. The rats were divided into four groups according to treatment: saline (control); chicory extract (100 mg/kg body weight daily, given orally for 2 weeks); CCl4 (1 ml/kg body weight by intraperitoneal injection for 2 consecutive days only); or chicory extract (100 mg/kg body weight daily for 2 weeks) + CCl4 injection on days 16 and 17. The levels of hepatic lipid peroxidation, antioxidants, and molecular biomarkers were estimated twenty-four hours after the last CCl4 injection.
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