Plant, Soil and Environment, 2020 (vol. 66), issue 7
Bacterial endophytes from horseradish (Armoracia rusticana G. Gaertn.,B.Mey.&Scherb.) with antimicrobial efficacy against pathogensOriginal Paper
Dilfuza Egamberdieva, Vyacheslav Shurigin, Burak Alaylar, Stephan Wirth, Sonoko Dorothea Bellingrath-Kimura
Plant Soil Environ., 2020, 66(7):309-316 | DOI: 10.17221/137/2020-PSE 
The current study aimed to determine the diversity of culturable endophytic bacteria associated with horseradish (Armoracia rusticana G.Gaertn., B.Mey.&
Distribution of root system of hop plants in hop gardens with regular rows cultivationOriginal Paper
Václav Brant, Karel Krofta, Milan Kroulík, Petr Zábranský, Pavel Procházka, Jaroslav Pokorný
Plant Soil Environ., 2020, 66(7):317-326 | DOI: 10.17221/672/2019-PSE
Spatial distribution of the root system of hop (Humulus lupulus L.) in the soil profile is a less explored issue. However, it is known that it can play an important role in the development of new tillage technologies, fertilisation and irrigation, including the use of precision farming principles. In the period from 2015 to 2018, the distribution of the hop root system was evaluated on twelve hop plants of five Czech hop cultivars. The age of the plants ranged from 3 to 15 years. The evaluation took place in the Saaz region at regularly cultivated hop gardens. As part of the evaluation, the root systems of hop plants were removed from the...
Antioxidant activity and content of selected antioxidant compounds in grain of different oat cultivarsOriginal Paper
Ivana Capouchová, Barbora Burešová, Luboš Paznocht, Marie Eliášová, Kateřina Pazderů, Petr Konvalina, Matěj Satranský, Václav Dvořáček
Plant Soil Environ., 2020, 66(7):327-333 | DOI: 10.17221/212/2020-PSE
The total antioxidant activity (TAA), total contents of polyphenols (TPC), phenolic acids (TPA) and tocols (TTC) were determined in the grain of 5 oat cultivars of Czech origin grown under organic and conventional cropping systems in two-year experiments (2018 and 2019). The TPC ranged from 772.9 mg/kg DM (dry matter) (hulled oat cv. Seldon) to 890.6 mg/kg (naked oat cv. Patrik); the TPA from 261.6 mg/kg (cv. Seldon) to 479.0 mg/kg (cv. Patrik); the TTC from 110.9 mg/kg (hulled oat cv. Korok) to 126.5 mg/kg (cv. Seldon). The TAA ranged from 427.1 mg/kg (cv. Korok) to 474.9 mg/kg (cv. Seldon). Besides the effect of the cultivar, the TAA and antioxidant...
Physiological and antioxidant responses of cultivated and wild barley under salt stressOriginal Paper
Jabeen Zahra, Hussain Nazim, Irshad Faiza, Jianbin Zeng, Ayesha Tahir, Guoping Zhang
Plant Soil Environ., 2020, 66(7):334-344 | DOI: 10.17221/169/2020-PSE
Saline soil is a critical environmental problem affecting crop yield worldwide. Tibetan wild barley is distinguished for its vast genetic diversity and high degree of tolerance to abiotic stress, including salinity. The present study compared the response of antioxidant defense system in the XZ16 wild and CM72 cultivated barleys to salt stress. Wild barley was relatively more tolerant than cultivated CM72, salt-tolerant cultivar, with less Na+ uptake and more K+, Ca2+, and Mg
Nitrogen fixation sensitivity related to water use efficiency at reproductive development in soybeanOriginal Paper
Yan Jiang, C. Andy King, Larry C. Purcell, Shaodong Wang
Plant Soil Environ., 2020, 66(7):345-350 | DOI: 10.17221/271/2020-PSE
Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] nitrogen fixation is sensitive differentially to drought among different genotypes at different growth and development stages, which directly affects soybean yield. Acetylene reduction activity (ARA) response to a gradual drought and rewatering period at late podding (late R3) and late seed fill (late R5) were evaluated in two different water use efficiency (WUE) genotypes. Drought-stressed plants with high WUE (PI 372413) decreased ARA more insensitively than that of low WUE (PI 548534), and drought-stressed plants with low WUE (PI 548534) maintained low ARA level after stress alleviation...
Genetic differences in aluminium accumulation in the grains of field grown Aegilops and TriticumOriginal Paper
Ivana Maksimović, Rudolf Kastori, Marina Putnik-Delić, Vojislava Momčilović, Srbislav Denčić, Milan Mirosavljević
Plant Soil Environ., 2020, 66(7):351-356 | DOI: 10.17221/127/2020-PSE
Plant species and genotypes differ considerably with respect to the accumulation of mineral elements. This study examined the accumulation of aluminium (Al) in Aegilops and Triticum species with different genomes (AA, BB, BBAA, BBAADD and DD) and correlations between concentration of Al in the grain and features of the spike. Twenty different genotypes were included in three-year field experiments. The examined species and genomes differed significantly in their Al concentration in grain. The highest concentrations of Al were found in the grains of wild diploid Aegilops speltoides (BB genome), and the lowest in tetraploids...
Barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) P. Beauv.) resistance to acetolactate synthase-inhibiting and other herbicides in rice in TurkeyOriginal Paper
Koray Kacan, Nihat Tursun, Hayat Ullah, Avishek Datta
Plant Soil Environ., 2020, 66(7):357-365 | DOI: 10.17221/92/2020-PSE
Barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) P. Beauv.) is one of the most yield-limiting weeds in rice in Turkey. Barnyardgrass resistance to common herbicides has been reported worldwide; however, such information is largely lacking in the country. The objective of this study was to determine the resistance spectrum of different barnyardgrass populations to the most commonly-used herbicides in rice in Turkey. The susceptibility of 40 barnyardgrass populations was evaluated. The samples were collected from fields with intensive rice cultivation in Balikesir and Çanakkale provinces. Seeds were picked from barnyardgrass plants suspected to be...
Boron content in soils under increasing magnesium and sulphur doses in a field experimentOriginal Paper
Gabriela Mühlbachová, Pavel Čermák, Martin Káš, Radek Vavera, Miroslava Pechová, Kateřina Marková
Plant Soil Environ., 2020, 66(7):366-373 | DOI: 10.17221/221/2020-PSE
The three-year field experiment (2015-2017) with graded doses of magnesium (Mg) and sulphur (S) was carried out at the Humpolec experimental station (49.5546239N, 15.3485489E; Czech Republic). The interactions between boron (B), Mg and S in the soil were studied. No boron was applied into soils. Contents of B, S and Mg in the soil were determined by the Mehlich 3 and NH4 acetate methods. The crop rotation was: spring barley-oilseed rape-winter wheat. Three Kieserite doses (S and Mg fertiliser) were applied. Sulphur treatments were 10-20-40 kg S/ha to cereals and 20-40-80 kg S/ha to oilseed rape. The...