Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) results from sulfide oxidation, which incorporates hydrogen ions, sulfate, and metals/metalloids into the aquatic environment, allowing fixation, bioaccumulation and biomagnification of pollutants ...

Several agrochemicals are used for rice production in Brazil; depending on their persistence and toxicity, these substances may cause damage to non-target species and also contaminate water systems. Paddy rice fields are ...

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is the best known unicellular green alga model which has long been used to investigate all kinds of cellular processes, including starch metabolism. Here we identified and characterized a novel ...

Ostreococcus tauri, the smallest free-living (non-symbiotic) eukaryote yet described, is a unicellular green alga of the Prasinophyceae family. It has a very simple cellular organization and presents a unique starch granule ...

Herbicides are chemical agents most consumed for agricultural production and of these, glyphosate (N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine) represents more than half of world consumption of non-selective herbicides, use of systemic ...

Potassic Chilean nitrate, a cheap natural product of northern Chile, was found to support the growth of the unicellular green alga Chlorella pyrenoidosa, a possible sheep fodder supplement in this region. Comparisons with ...

Nitric oxide (NO) is a signaling molecule with diverse biological functions in plants. NO plays a crucial role in growth and development, from germination to senescence, and is also involved in plant responses to biotic ...