Climate change is an invisible, silent killer with calamitous effects on living organisms. As
the sessile organism, plants experience a diverse array of abiotic stresses during …

Simple Summary Higher plants face a variety of stress conditions. There are a number of
different antioxidant enzymes that help plants to cope with these stresses. During stresses …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are generated in the plants during cellular metabolism. But
extreme environmental conditions like drought, salinity or floods etc. lead to an enhanced …

The stationary life of plants has led to the evolution of a complex gridded antioxidant
defence system constituting numerous enzymatic components, playing a crucial role in …

Superoxide dismutases (SODs) are a family of metalloenzymes that catalyze the dismutation
or disproportionation of superoxide radicals (O _ 2^ ⋅-O 2·-) into molecular oxygen (O 2) …

Cadmium (Cd) accumulation in arable lands has become a serious matter for food security.
Among various approaches, the application of nanoparticles (NPs) for remediation of …

Plants being sessile organisms are often exposed to various abiotic stress conditions, which
greatly hamper the growth, yields as well as the quality of produce. Plants respond to abiotic …

Although cadmium (Cd), an extremely toxic non-essential heavy metal, has no biological
function, it is capable of entering plant roots. Cd not only presents a problem for plants …

Superoxide dismutases (SODs) play an important role in protecting plants against ROS
toxicity induced by biotic and abiotic stress. Recent studies have shown that the SOD gene …

Among abiotic stress, the toxicity of metals impacts negatively on plants' growth and
productivity. This toxicity promotes various perturbations in plants at different levels. To …