Allelopatic effects of cyanobacteria extracts containing microcystins on Medicago sativa-Rhizobia symbiosis

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 431-438

  El Khalloufi, Fatima ^a   Oufdou, Khalid ^a   Lahrouni, Majida ^a   El Ghazali, Issam ^a   Saqrane, Sanaa ^a   Vasconcelos, Vitor ^b,c   Oudra, Brahim ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cyanotoxins; Irrigation water; Legume plants; Medicago sativa; Nodules; Rhizobia; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

LAKE WATER; MICROCYSTIN;

ALLELOPATHY; CYANOBACTERIUM; EUTROPHICATION; GERMINATION; GROWTH; IRRIGATION; LEGUME; MICROORGANISM; PHYTOTOXICITY; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SEEDLING; SYMBIOSIS; WATER POLLUTION;

ALFALFA; ALLELOPATHY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; EUTROPHICATION; GERMINATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOTOXICITY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT SEED; RHIZOBIACEAE; ROOT LENGTH; SEEDLING; SYMBIOSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; EUTROPHICATION; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MICROCYSTINS; MICROCYSTIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHEROMONES; RHIZOBIACEAE; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; FABACEAE; MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 79951959959     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2010.10.006     Document Type: Article

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