Soil salinization is a severe abiotic stress that negatively affects plant growth and
development, leading to physiological abnormalities and ultimately threatening global food …

Climate change has increased the overall impact of abiotic stress conditions such as
drought, salinity, and extreme temperatures on plants. Abiotic stress adversely affects the …

Modern agriculture is facing twin challenge of ensuring global food security and executing it
in a sustainable manner. However, the rapidly expanding salinity stress in cultivable areas …

Key message Intensive public sector breeding efforts and public-private partnerships have
led to the increase in genetic gains, and deployment of elite climate-resilient maize cultivars …

Salinity stress is a major threat to global food production and its intensity is continuously
increasing because of anthropogenic activities. Wheat is a staple food and a source of …

Salt stress negatively affects the growth, development, and yield of horticultural crops. Nitric
oxide (NO) is considered a signaling molecule that plays a key role in the plant defense …

Dramatic accumulation of proline is a common physiological response in plants exposed to
various abiotic stresses. Accumulation of proline could be due to de novo synthesis …

Plants are exposed to a variety of abiotic stresses in nature and exhibit unique and complex
responses to these stresses depending on their degree of plasticity involving many …

Maize is grown under a wide spectrum of soil and climatic conditions. Maize is moderately
sensitive to salt stress; therefore, soil salinity is a serious threat to its production worldwide …

Soil degradation has become an emerging global problem limiting sustainable upland crop
production. Soil erosion, soil acidity, low fertility, inorganic/organic contamination, and …