Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are considered a major class of organic
contaminants or pollutants, which are poisonous, mutagenic, genotoxic, and/or …

Anthropogenic activities in the past and present eras have created global warming and
consequently a storm of drought stress, affecting both plants and animals. Being sessile …

Climate change, food shortage, water scarcity, and population growth are some of the
threatening challenges being faced in today's world. Drought stress (DS) poses a constant …

The ridge-furrow plastic mulching system has been reported to increase crop yield and
water-nitrogen use efficiency in semi-arid and semi-humid regions, but the effects of plant …

Genetic improvement in sorghum breeding programs requires the assessment of adaptation
traits in small-plot breeding trials across multiple environments. Many of these phenotypic …

Detection of senescence's dynamics in crop breeding is time consuming and needs
considerable details regarding its rate of progression and intensity. Normalized difference …

Background Environmental stress is a crucial factor restricting plant growth as well as crop
productivity, thus influencing the agricultural sustainability. Biochar addition is proposed as …

Although chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) has high yield potential, its seed yield is often low
and unstable due to the impact of abiotic stresses, such as drought and heat. As a result of …

The soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merrill] production system in Brazil and other South American
countries relies on the biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) in symbiosis with Bradyrhizobium …

Drought is one of the major abiotic stresses that limit soybean production worldwide. This
study was conducted to determine whether soybean cultivars with divergent growth habits …