Soil salinity is an environmental condition that is currently increasing worldwide. Plant
growth under salinity induces osmotic stress and ion toxicity impairing root water and …

The need for understanding and assessing soil quality is getting increasingly important
because of growing public interest in determining the effect of management practices on the …

Salinity of the soil and water is one of the principal environmental elements that might
influence the soil proprieties, crop production, distribution plant pathogens and their …

Halophilic fungi have evolved unique osmoadaptive strategies, enabling them to thrive in
hypersaline habitats. Here, we conduct morphological and transcriptomic response of …

Water activity (aw) is critical for microbial growth, as it is severely restricted at aw< 0.90.
Saturating NaCl concentrations (~ 5.0 M) induce extreme water deprivation (aw≅ 0.75) and …

Purpose Soil quality (SQ), a measure of the sustainability of land use and soil management
practices, can be assessed by indicators including soil physical, chemical, and biological …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon is a toxic recalcitrant environmental pollutant and its
removal from the environment is very essential. In this study, a novel S1 strain isolated from …

The dependency of microbial activity on nutrient availability in soil is only partly understood,
but highly relevant for nutrient cycling dynamics. In order to achieve more insight on …

Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi improve the host plant's tolerance to abiotic and biotic stresses.
Cenococcum geophilum (Cg) is among the most common ECM fungi worldwide and often …

We investigated the ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungal colonization status of Pinus thunbergii
mature trees and regenerating seedlings varying in age in coastal pine forests on the east …