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Download Special Issue The Scientific World Journal Plant Abio-Stress and Bioresources Utilization for Sustainable Development Guest Editors: Hong-bo Shao, Marian Brestic, Si-Xue Chen, Zhao Chang-Xing, and Xu Gang Plant Abio-Stress and Bioresources Utilization for Sustainable Development The Scientific World Journal Plant Abio-Stress and Bioresources Utilization for Sustainable Development Guest Editors: Hong-bo Shao, Marian Brestic, Si-Xue Chen, Zhao Chang-Xing, and Xu Gang Copyright © 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. This is a special issue published in “The Scientific World Journal.”All articles are open access articles distributed under the Creative Com- mons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Contents Plant Abio-Stress and Bioresources Utilization for Sustainable Development, Hong-bo Shao, Marian Brestic, Si-Xue Chen, Zhao Chang-Xing, and Xu Gang Volume 2014, Article ID 163123, 2 pages Effect of Continuous Cropping Generations on Each Component Biomass of Poplar Seedlings during Different Growth Periods, Jiangbao Xia, Shuyong Zhang, Tian Li, Xia Liu, Ronghua Zhang, and Guangcan Zhang Volume 2014, Article ID 618421, 9 pages Effects of Salt-Drought Stress on Growth and Physiobiochemical Characteristics of Tamarix chinensis Seedlings, Junhua Liu, Jiangbao Xia, Yanming Fang, Tian Li, and Jingtao Liu Volume 2014, Article ID 765840, 7 pages Impacts of Groundwater Recharge from Rubber Dams on the Hydrogeological Environment in Luoyang Basin, China, Shaogang Dong, Baiwei Liu, Huamin Liu, Shidong Wang, and Lixin Wang Volume2014,ArticleID183457,10pages Expression Profiles of 12 Late Embryogenesis Abundant Protein Genes from Tamarix hispida in Response to Abiotic Stress, Caiqiu Gao, Yali Liu, Chao Wang, Kaimin Zhang, and Yucheng Wang Volume 2014, Article ID 868391, 9 pages Responses of Seed Germination, Seedling Growth, and Seed Yield Traits to Seed Pretreatment in Maize (Zea mays L.), Yu Tian, Bo Guan, Daowei Zhou, Junbao Yu, Guangdi Li, and Yujie Lou Volume 2014, Article ID 834630, 8 pages N¡sub¿2¡/sub¿O Emissions from an Apple Orchard in the Coastal Area of Bohai Bay, China, Baohua Xie, Junbao Yu, Xunhua Zheng, Fanzhu Qu, Yu Xu, and Haitao Lin Volume 2014, Article ID 164732, 8 pages Mine Land Reclamation and Eco-Reconstruction in Shanxi Province I: Mine Land Reclamation Model, Hao Bing-yuan and Kang Li-xun Volume2014,ArticleID483862,9pages Regulating N Application for Rice Yield and Sustainable Eco-Agro Development in the Upper Reaches of Yellow River Basin, China, Aiping Zhang, Ruliang Liu, Ji Gao, Shiqi Yang, and Zhe Chen Volume 2014, Article ID 239279, 11 pages The Static Breaking Technique for Sustainable and Eco-Environmental Coal Mining, Hao Bing-yuan, Huang Hui, Feng Zi-jun, and Wang Kai Volume 2014, Article ID 248792, 10 pages Hydrogen Peroxide Is Involved in Salicylic Acid-Elicited Rosmarinic Acid Production in Salvia miltiorrhiza Cell Cultures, Wenfang Hao, Hongbo Guo, Jingyi Zhang, Gege Hu, Yaqin Yao, and Juane Dong Volume 2014, Article ID 843764, 7 pages A Meta-Analysis of the Bacterial and Archaeal Diversity Observed in Wetland Soils,XiaofeiLv, Junbao Yu, Yuqin Fu, Bin Ma, Fanzhu Qu, Kai Ning, and Huifeng Wu Volume2014,ArticleID437684,12pages Distribution Characteristic of Soil Organic Carbon Fraction in Different Types of Wetland in Hongze Lake of China, Yan Lu and Hongwen Xu Volume2014,ArticleID487961,5pages Soil Phosphorus Forms and Profile Distributions in the Tidal River Network Region in the Yellow River Delta Estuary, Junbao Yu, Fanzhu Qu, Huifeng Wu, Ling Meng, Siyao Du, and Baohua Xie Volume 2014, Article ID 912083, 11 pages Soil Characteristic Comparison of Fenced and Grazed Riparian Floodplain Wetlands in the Typical Steppe Region of the Inner Mongolian Plateau, China, Lixin Wang, Huamin Liu, Yuhong Liu, Jianwei Li, Hongbo Shao, Wei Wang, and Cunzhu Liang Volume 2014, Article ID 765907, 10 pages Effects of Different Vegetation Zones4 onCH and N2O Emissions in Coastal Wetlands: A Model Case Study, Yuhong Liu, Lixin Wang, Shumei Bao, Huamin Liu, Junbao Yu, YuWang,HongboShao,YanOuyang,andShuqingAn Volume 2014, Article ID 412183, 7 pages Multivariate-Statistical Assessment of Heavy Metals for Agricultural Soils in Northern China, Pingguo Yang, Miao Yang, Renzhao Mao, and Hongbo Shao Volume 2014, Article ID 517020, 7 pages Effects of Urbanization Expansion on Landscape Pattern and Region Ecological Risk in Chinese Coastal City: A Case Study of Yantai City, Di Zhou, Ping Shi, Xiaoqing Wu, Jinwei Ma, and Junbao Yu Volume 2014, Article ID 821781, 9 pages Wet and Dry Atmospheric Depositions of Inorganic Nitrogen during Plant Growing Season in the Coastal Zone of Yellow River Delta,JunbaoYu,KaiNing,YunzhaoLi,SiyaoDu,GuangxuanHan, Qinghui Xing, Huifeng Wu, Guangmei Wang, and Yongjun Gao Volume 2014, Article ID 949213, 8 pages Ecological Effects of Roads on the Plant Diversity of Coastal Wetland in the Yellow River Delta, Yunzhao Li, Junbao Yu, Kai Ning, Siyao Du, Guangxuan Han, Fanzhu Qu, Guangmei Wang, Yuqin Fu, and Chao Zhan Volume 2014, Article ID 952051, 8 pages Hindawi Publishing Corporation e Scientific World Journal Volume 2014, Article ID 163123, 2 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/163123 Editorial Plant Abio-Stress and Bioresources Utilization for Sustainable Development Hong-bo Shao,1,2 Marian Brestic,3 Si-Xue Chen,4 Zhao Chang-Xing,5 and Xu Gang2 1 Institute of Biotechnology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China 2Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research (YIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Yantai 264003, China 3Department of Plant Physiology, Slovak Agricultural University, Tr. A. Hlinku 2, 949 01 Nitra, Slovakia 4CancerandGeneticsResearchComplex,UniversityofFlorida,2033MowryRoad,Room438,Gainesville,FL32610,USA 5College of Agronomy and Plant Protection, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China Correspondence should be addressed to Hong-bo Shao; [email protected] Received 24 December 2014; Accepted 24 December 2014; Published 31 December 2014 Copyright © 2014 Hong-bo Shao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Resources, environment, food, and sustainable development in agriculture but also in environmental sciences. In the (REFS)arethetopicsoftheworld.Therearemanyfactorsin topic issue, many papers are devoted to this field such as the current world that limit plant productivity and resources soil, microbiological organisms, green-house gas, vegetation utilization including objective and subjective aspects. More restoration, and salt soil improvement with more potential efforts should be made to know the physiological mecha- measures. Soil resources utilization is another important nisms for plants responding to abiotic stresses such as salt, aspect. In soil P bioavailability is a key issue. In this special heat, drought, cold, and UV-B, which have been extensively issue, some papers have been devoted to this issue and its role investigated under increasing global climate change. How in eco-restoration. Partial papers about salt-resistant genes to efficiently use bioresources and protect and construct characterization and functional analysis will be of great value eco-environment for sustainable development is the greatest to further gene resources utilization in agriculture and salt challenge. As known, plants can provide human beings with soil improvement. We hope that readers of this special issue renewable energy, food, and materials and are the base for will find not only accurate data and updated articles that are sustainable development in different forms around the world. involved in REFS, but also important questions to be resolved, The other related issues are bioresources efficient utilization for example, by different biomeasures. Related relationship and eco-environmental construction. So, these major global can be referenced to Figure 1. challenges are the precondition of our sustainable survival. Plants have evolved different mechanisms for adapting Hong-bo Shao themselves to different stress during long-term natural evolu- Marian Brestic tion and domestic pressure, which at least include molecular, Si-Xue Chen biochemical, physiological, cellular, organ, tissue, anatomy, Zhao Chang-Xing individual, and ecological scales. The physiological level is Xu Gang veryimportantasitisthekeyforfarmerstofertilizeand manage crops. More recent progress related with molec- ular biology and metabolism and bioresources and eco- environment has also taken place for the past 20 years. How to regulate plant-soils relationship for sustainable plant productivity at precise level has a long way to go not only 2 The Scientific World Journal Plants Soils Soil sciences Plant biology Agriculture sciences Bioresource Environmental protection Sustainable development Human beings’ sustainable development Figure 1 Hindawi Publishing Corporation e Scientific World Journal Volume 2014, Article ID 618421, 9 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/618421 Research Article Effect of Continuous Cropping Generations on Each Component Biomass of Poplar Seedlings during Different Growth Periods Jiangbao Xia,1 Shuyong Zhang,2 Tian Li,1 Xia Liu,3 Ronghua Zhang,2 and Guangcan Zhang2 1 Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Eco-Environmental Science for Yellow River Delta, Binzhou University,
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