MADEJÓN , Engracia

Establishing energy crops could be a cost-efficient alternative towards the valorization of the plant biomass produced in contaminated lands, where they would not compete with food production for land use. Dittrichia viscosa and Silybum marianum are two native Mediterranean species recently identified as potential energy crops for degraded...

Uranium (U) contamination due to mining and metallurgical operations is a serious problem and poses a high potential threat to humans and other organisms. The application of amendments and/or plants, known as assisted phytoremediation, can accelerate the adsorption, complexation and precipitation processes in soil, and therefore can facilitate...

Climate change, especially in Mediterranean countries, might have a detrimental effect on agro‑ecosystems and agricultural production, as well as on the price, quantity and quality of the products. This study assesses the potential impact of drought predictions on a faba bean crop, and evaluates the adoption of conservation tillage practices to...

The application of organic amendments is a common practice in the restoration of contaminated and degraded soils. We designed an experiment in pot mesocosms to study the effect of organic amendment (comparing a short-term addition of biosolid compost with soils amended 17 years ago) and soil legacy (comparing soils exposed or not to extensive...

Intensification of olive production could suppose an increase of natural resources consumption as well as an acceleration of soil degradation. Studies of soil and trees combining different strategies of water management and fertilization to solve these drawbacks are scarce and contradictory. The aim of this work was to describe the effect of...

When considering defcit irrigation, the most resistant period to water stress in olive crops is during the pit hardening. However, the determination of this period and the impact that water stress has on its onset or duration have not been clearly established. The aim of this work is to describe the impact of water stress on three processes...