The role of the plant antioxidant system in drought tolerance

M Laxa, M Liebthal, W Telman, K Chibani, KJ Dietz - Antioxidants, 2019 - mdpi.com
Water deficiency compromises plant performance and yield in many habitats and in
agriculture. In addition to survival of the acute drought stress period which depends on plant …

Early-stage detection of biotic and abiotic stress on plants by chlorophyll fluorescence imaging analysis

J Moustaka, M Moustakas - Biosensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Most agricultural land, as a result of climate change, experiences severe stress that
significantly reduces agricultural yields. Crop sensing by imaging techniques allows early …

Early drought stress warning in plants: Color pictures of photosystem II photochemistry

M Moustakas, I Sperdouli, J Moustaka - Climate, 2022 - mdpi.com
Drought, the major limiting factor for plant growth and crop productivity, affecting several
physiological and biochemical processes, is expected to increase in duration, intensity, and …

[HTML][HTML] Cadmium toxicity in Salvia sclarea L.: An integrative response of element uptake, oxidative stress markers, leaf structure and photosynthesis

AG Dobrikova, EL Apostolova, A Hanć… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The herbal plant Salvia sclarea L.(clary sage) is classified to cadmium (Cd) accumulators
and considered as a potential plant for phytoremediation of heavy metal polluted soil …

Harnessing the role of foliar applied salicylic acid in decreasing chlorophyll content to reassess photosystem II photoprotection in crop plants

M Moustakas, I Sperdouli, IDS Adamakis… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Salicylic acid (SA), an essential plant hormone, has received much attention due to its role in
modulating the adverse effects of biotic and abiotic stresses, acting as an antioxidant and …

Leaf and plant age affects photosynthetic performance and photoprotective capacity

LW Bielczynski, MK Łącki, I Hoefnagels… - Plant …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
In this work, we studied the changes in high-light tolerance and photosynthetic activity in
leaves of the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) rosette throughout the vegetative stage of …

Decoding β-cyclocitral-mediated retrograde signaling reveals the role of a detoxification response in plant tolerance to photooxidative stress

S d'Alessandro, B Ksas, M Havaux - The Plant Cell, 2018 - academic.oup.com
When exposed to unfavorable environmental conditions, plants can absorb light energy in
excess of their photosynthetic capacities, with the surplus energy leading to the production …

Excess zinc supply reduces cadmium uptake and mitigates cadmium toxicity effects on chloroplast structure, oxidative stress, and photosystem II photochemical …

I Sperdouli, IDS Adamakis, A Dobrikova, E Apostolova… - Toxics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Salvia sclarea L. is a Cd2+ tolerant medicinal herb with antifungal and antimicrobial
properties cultivated for its pharmacological properties. However, accumulation of high …

Plant photochemistry, reactive oxygen species, and photoprotection

M Moustakas - Photochem, 2021 - mdpi.com
Light energy, absorbed as photons by chlorophylls and other pigment molecules consisting
of light-harvesting complexes (LHCs), is transferred to the reaction centres (RCs), where …

A hormetic spatiotemporal photosystem II response mechanism of salvia to excess zinc exposure

M Moustakas, A Dobrikova, I Sperdouli, A Hanć… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Exposure of Salvia sclarea plants to excess Zn for 8 days resulted in increased Ca, Fe, Mn,
and Zn concentrations, but decreased Mg, in the aboveground tissues. The significant …