Reactive oxygen species and antioxidant defense in plants under abiotic stress: Revisiting the crucial role of a universal defense regulator

M Hasanuzzaman, MHMB Bhuyan, F Zulfiqar, A Raza… - Antioxidants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Global climate change and associated adverse abiotic stress conditions, such as drought,
salinity, heavy metals, waterlogging, extreme temperatures, oxygen deprivation, etc., greatly …

Regulation of ROS metabolism in plants under environmental stress: A review of recent experimental evidence

M Hasanuzzaman, MHMB Bhuyan, K Parvin… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Various environmental stresses singly or in combination generate excess amounts of
reactive oxygen species (ROS), leading to oxidative stress and impaired redox homeostasis …

Understanding the phytoremediation mechanisms of potentially toxic elements: a proteomic overview of recent advances

M Alsafran, K Usman, B Ahmed, M Rizwan… - Frontiers in plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Potentially toxic elements (PTEs) such as cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), chromium (Cr), and
arsenic (As), polluting the environment, pose a significant risk and cause a wide array of …

Treatment of sweet pepper with stress tolerance-inducing compounds alleviates salinity stress oxidative damage by mediating the physio-biochemical activities and …

KA Abdelaal, LM El-Maghraby, H Elansary, YM Hafez… - Agronomy, 2019 - mdpi.com
Salinity stress occurs due to the accumulation of high levels of salts in soil, which ultimately
leads to the impairment of plant growth and crop loss. Stress tolerance-inducing compounds …

Ameliorative Effects of Exogenous Proline on Photosynthetic Attributes, Nutrients Uptake, and Oxidative Stresses under Cadmium in Pigeon Pea (Cajanus cajan L.)

K Hayat, J Khan, A Khan, S Ullah, S Ali, Salahuddin… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Proline plays a significant role in the plant response to stress conditions. However, its role in
alleviating metal-induced stresses remains elusive. We conducted an experiment to …

Ascorbic acid induces the increase of secondary metabolites, antioxidant activity, growth, and productivity of the common bean under water stress conditions

AA Gaafar, SI Ali, MA El-Shawadfy, ZA Salama… - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
One of the most vital environmental factors that restricts plant production in arid and semi-
arid environments is the lack of fresh water and drought stress. Common bean (Phaseolus …

Oryza glumaepatula and calcium oxide nanoparticles enhanced Cr stress tolerance by maintaining antioxidant defense, chlorophyll and gene expression levels in rice

H Ashraf, F Ghouri, M Zhong, SA Cheema… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Chromium (Cr), a potent heavy metal, threatens rice cultivation due to its escalating
presence in soil from human activities. Wild rice contains useful genes for phytoremediation; …

Alleviation of arsenic toxicity in pepper plants by aminolevulinic acid and heme through modulating its sequestration and distribution within cell organelles

C Kaya, M Ashraf, MN Alyemeni, J Rinklebe… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is essential for chlorophyll and heme synthesis. However,
whether heme interacts with ALA to elicit antioxidants in arsenic (As)-exposed plants is still …

Trophic transfer of heavy metals along a pollution gradient in a terrestrial agro-industrial food web

MM Soliman, T Hesselberg, AA Mohamed, D Renault - Geoderma, 2022 - Elsevier
Heavy metal contamination across the food web is a growing concern because of increasing
environmental discharges in industrial zones, atmospheric transport, and deposition and …

Synthetic biology approaches towards the recycling of metals from the environment

MJ Capeness, LE Horsfall - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2020 - portlandpress.com
Metals are a finite resource and their demand for use within existing and new technologies
means metal scarcity is increasingly a global challenge. Conversely, there are areas …