BARCIA PIEDRAS , José María

El planeta Tierra está sufriendo graves alteraciones debido a la actividad del ser humano, entre las que cabe destacar el crecimiento exponencial de la población mundial. Dicho aumento conlleva la necesidad de producir más alimentos básicos. Consecuentemente, se están sobreexplotando las zonas agrícolas, lo que aumenta la demanda tanto de abono...

The capacity of halophytes species to resist abiotic stress has been tested on multiple occasions. The ability of these species such as Sarcocornia fruticosa to cope with severe stress conditions has been shown, as well as their utility as a phytoremediation tool or even as potential crop species. However, there is a lack of literature on the...

Increasing extreme temperature climatic events could exert an important effect on plant photosynthetic performance, which could be modulated by the co-occurrence with other environmental factors, such as salinity, in estuarine ecosystems. Therefore, a mesocosm experiment was designed to assess the impact of temperature events for three days...

We studied the capacity of extreme halophyte, Arthrocnemum macrostachyum, to desalinize an experimentally-salinized soil under non-leaching conditions. Furthermore, we tested the effect of salt pre-exposure of this species on its phytodesalination capacity. The presence of the halophyte, independently salt pre-exposure, decreased salinity of...

Soil contamination with petroleum-derived substances such as diesel fuel has become a major environmental threat. Phytoremediation is one of the most studied ecofriendly low-cost solutions nowadays and halophytes species has been proved to have potential as bio-tools for this purpose. The extent to which salinity influences diesel tolerance in...

The Earth is undergoing alterations at a high speed, which causes problems such as environmental pollution and difficulty in food production. This is where halophytes are interesting, due to their high potential in different fields, such as remediation of the environment and agriculture. For this reason, it is necessary to deepen the knowledge...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) have become a threat for the conservation of wetlands worldwide. The halophyte Spartina densiflora has shown to be potentially useful for soil phenanthrene phytoremediation, but no studies on bacteria-assisted hydrocarbon phytoremediation have been carried out with this halophyte. In this work, three...