The impact of drought in plant metabolism: How to exploit tolerance mechanisms to increase crop production

D Kapoor, S Bhardwaj, M Landi, A Sharma… - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Plants are often exposed to unfavorable environmental conditions, for instance abiotic
stresses, which dramatically alter distribution of plant species among ecological niches and …

Stress and defense responses in plant secondary metabolites production

T Isah - Biological research, 2019 - SciELO Chile
In the growth condition (s) of plants, numerous secondary metabolites (SMs) are produced
by them to serve variety of cellular functions essential for physiological processes, and …

Response and defence mechanisms of vegetable crops against drought, heat and salinity stress

M Giordano, SA Petropoulos, Y Rouphael - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
Environmental pollution, increasing CO2 atmospheric levels and the greenhouse effect are
closely associated with the ongoing climate change and the extreme climatic events we are …

Are flavonoids effective antioxidants in plants? Twenty years of our investigation

G Agati, C Brunetti, A Fini, A Gori, L Guidi, M Landi… - Antioxidants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Whether flavonoids play significant antioxidant roles in plants challenged by photooxidative
stress of different origin has been largely debated over the last few decades. A critical review …

The ecological importance of allelopathy

JL Hierro, RM Callaway - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Allelopathy (ie, chemical interaction among species) was originally conceived as inclusive of
positive and negative effects of plants on other plants, and we adopt this view. Most studies …

Grape berry secondary metabolites and their modulation by abiotic factors in a climate change scenario–a review

M Rienth, N Vigneron, P Darriet, C Sweetman… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Temperature, water, solar radiation, and atmospheric CO2 concentration are the main
abiotic factors that are changing in the course of global warming. These abiotic factors …

Understanding the consequence of environmental stress for accumulation of secondary metabolites in medicinal and aromatic plants

M Mahajan, R Kuiry, PK Pal - Journal of Applied Research on Medicinal …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abiotic stresses are the most critical hurdle for the growth and development of the plants.
The abiotic stresses are salinity, heat, drought, flood, heavy metals and plant nutrients …

The effect of drought stress on polyphenolic compounds and expression of flavonoid biosynthesis related genes in Achillea pachycephala Rech. f

S Gharibi, BES Tabatabaei, G Saeidi, M Talebi… - Phytochemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
This study investigated the effect of drought stress on the amount of phenolic and flavonoid
compounds as well as H 2 O 2 and malondialdehyde (MDA) in Achillea pachycephala. The …

Transcriptome and metabolite profiling reveals that prolonged drought modulates the phenylpropanoid and terpenoid pathway in white grapes (Vitis vinifera L.)

S Savoi, DCJ Wong, P Arapitsas, M Miculan… - BMC plant biology, 2016 - Springer
Background Secondary metabolism contributes to the adaptation of a plant to its
environment. In wine grapes, fruit secondary metabolism largely determines wine quality …

Cyanogenic glycosides: synthesis, physiology, and phenotypic plasticity

RM Gleadow, BL Møller - Annual review of plant biology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Cyanogenic glycosides (CNglcs) are bioactive plant products derived from amino acids.
Structurally, these specialized plant compounds are characterized as α-hydroxynitriles …