Temperature is one of the decisive environmental factors that is projected to increase by 1.
5° C over the next two decades due to climate change that may affect various agronomic …

Productivity of food crops like wheat, a staple food of major portion of the world, is hampered
due to salinity stress, thereby threatening food security. With the advancements in plant …

Objectives Chlorophyll-a fluorescence is an efficient tool to determine the photosynthetic
capacity of plants and the health status of plants under normal or stress conditions including …

Salt tolerant wheat cultivars may be used as genetic resource for wheat breeding to ensure
yield stability in future. The study was aimed to select salt tolerant cultivar (s) to identify novel …

Potassium ion (K+) has been regarded as an essential signaling in plant growth and
development. K+ transporters and channels at transcription and protein levels have been …

Agronomic biofortification is the purposeful utilization of mineral fertilizers to increase the
concentration of desired minerals in edible plant parts for enhancing their dietary intake. It is …

Background Proline can promote growth of plants by increasing photosynthetic activity
under both non-stress and abiotic stress conditions. However, its role in non-stressed …

Environmental stresses limit various stages of plant growth, including germination, seedling
establishment, reproductive growth, yield and quality. Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) is a …

The application of silicon through external means has been proved to accelerate stress
tolerance in different plant species. In this regard, we conducted an experiment to evaluate …

Plant salt tolerance is controlled by various physiological processes such as water and ion
homeostasis, photosynthesis, and cellular redox balance, which are in turn controlled by …