Al Hassan, Mohamad; Pacurar, Andrea Mariana; López Gresa, María Pilar; Donat Torres, Maria del Pilar; Llinares Palacios, Josep Vicent; Boscaiu Neagu, Mónica Tereza; Vicente Meana, Óscar(Public Library of Science, 2016-08-04)
Comparative studies on the responses to salt stress of taxonomically related taxa should
help to elucidate relevant mechanisms of stress tolerance in plants. We have applied this
strategy to three Plantago species adapted ...
AL HASSAN, MOHAMAD; Daniso, Enrico; Boscaiu Neagu, Mónica Tereza; Vicente Meana, Óscar(University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, 2015)
[EN] We have isolated full-length cDNA clones of the NHX1 gene – encoding the vacuolar Na+
/H+
antiporter – from
three Plantago species (P. crassifolia, P. coronopus and P. major) differing in salt tolerance. A ...
Al Hassan, Mohamad; Pacurar, Andrea; Gaspar, Alexandra; Vicente Meana, Óscar; Boscaiu Neagu, Mónica Tereza(Universitatea de Stiinte Agricole si Medicina Veterinara Cluj-Napoca + Academic Pres, 2014)
[EN] Salt stress responses were studied in three Plantago species (P. crassifolia, P. coronopus and P. major), with different levels of salt stress tolerance, at growth and reproductive stages of the life cycle. Plants ...
[EN] This study attempted to determine short-term responses to drought and salt stress in different Silene vulgaris genotypes and to identify potential abiotic stress biochemical indicators in this species. Four populations ...
Schiop, Sorin T.; Al Hassan, Mohamad; Sestras, Adriana F.; Boscaiu Neagu, Mónica Tereza; Sestras, Radu E.; Vicente Meana, Óscar(Public Library of Science, 2015-08-19)
The Norway spruce (Picea abies), the most important tree species in European forests, is
relatively sensitive to salt and does not grow in natural saline environments. Yet many trees
are actually exposed to salt stress ...
[EN] mulation, activation of antioxidant systems), have been studied in Nerium oleander, a xerophytic species widely used as ornamental. Salt strongly inhibited growth, but the plants survived one month in the presence of ...
Dittrichia viscosa is a Mediterranean ruderal species that over the last decades has expanded into new habitats, including coastal salt marshes, ecosystems that are per se fragile and threatened by human activities. To ...
[EN] Background and aims: Morphological and biochemical traits of four halophytes of the genus Limonium were analysed in plants sampled from salt marshes in SE Spain. This work aimed to explore the mechanism(s) behind the ...
Schiop, Traian Sorin; Al Hassan, Mohamad; Boscaiu Neagu, Mónica Tereza; Vicente Meana, Óscar; Sestras, Adriana; Sestras, Radu(University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, 2014)
[EN] Due to global warming and anthropogenic activities, drought and salinity are becoming two of the
major abiotic stresses affecting coniferous forests in Romania. Seedlings from several Romanian populations of
Picea ...
[EN] Limonium is a genus represented in the Iberian Peninsula by numerous halophytic species that are a ected in nature by salinity, and often by prolonged drought episodes. Responses to water deficit have been studied in ...
[EN] The increasing frequency and intensity of drought periods is a serious threat for agriculture, prompting research
to select and develop crop species and cultivars with enhanced water stress tolerance. Drought responses ...
[EN] The negative effects of environmental stress factors on plant distribution and survival are increasing due to climate change and anthropogenic activities. We have analysed some responses to abiotic stress in Ligularia ...
[EN] European larch (Larix decidua Mill.) has been reported either as more tolerant or as more sensitive to drought than conifers with perennial leaves. Previous studies have revealed that Carpathian populations of European ...
Borsai, Orsolya; Al Hassan, Mohamad; Negrusier, Cornel; Raigón Jiménez, Mª Dolores; Boscaiu, Monica; Sestras, Radu E.; Vicente, Oscar(MDPI, 2020-12)
[EN] Climate change and its detrimental effects on agricultural production, freshwater availability and biodiversity accentuated the need for more stress-tolerant varieties of crops. This requires unraveling the underlying ...
[EN] The evaluation of biochemical markers is important for the understanding of the
mechanisms of tolerance to salinity of Phaseolus beans. We have evaluated several growth parameters
in young plants of three Phaseolus ...
[EN] Drought tolerance was evaluated in twelve cultivars of three ornamental Tagetes
species (T. patula, T. tenuifolia and T. erecta). A stress treatment was performed
by completely stopping watering of plants maintained ...
[EN] This study assessed the responses of four local Spanish cultivars of Phaseolus lunatus (lima bean) to moderate salinity. For three weeks, plants were exposed to increasing salinity (50-150 mM NaCl) under greenhouse ...
Al Hassan, Mohamad; López Gresa, María Pilar; Boscaiu Neagu, Mónica Tereza; Vicente Meana, Óscar(2016)
[EN] Comparative studies on the responses to salinity and drought were carried out in three Juncus species, two
halophytes (Juncus maritimus Lam. and Juncus acutus L.) and one more salt-sensitive (Juncus articulatus L.). ...
Pacurar, Andrea Mariana; AL HASSAN, MOHAMAD; Gaspar, Alexandra Oana; Boscaiu Neagu, Mónica Tereza; Vicente Meana, Óscar(University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, 2013)
[EN] We have studied whether two common osmolytes proline (Pro) and glycine betaine (GB) accumulate in plants of different Plantago species in response to salt and water stress, which would suggest that these compatible ...
Borsai, Orsolya; Al Hassan, Mohamad; Boscaiu, Monica; Sestras, Radu E.; Vicente, Oscar(European Biotechnology Thematic Network Association, 2018)
[EN] Drought and soil salinity are at present the major factors responsible for the global reduction of crop yields, and the problem
will become more severe in the coming decades because of climate change effects. The most ...