Phytohormones act as chemical messengers and, under a complex regulation, allow plants
to sustain biotic and abiotic stresses. Thus, phytohormones are known for their regulatory …

Heavy metals are natural non-biodegradable constituents of the Earth's crust that
accumulate and persist indefinitely in the ecosystem as a result of human activities. Since …

Various abiotic stress factors significantly contribute to major worldwide-losses in crop
productivity by mainly impacting plant's stress tolerance/adaptive capacity. The latter is …

Plants, being sessile throughout their life cycle, are vulnerable to various kinds of abiotic and
biotic stress conditions. They have evolved sophisticated mechanisms to detect precise …

The root system is formed by the primary root (PR), which forms lateral roots (LRs) and, in
some cases, adventitious roots (ARs), which in turn may produce their own LRs. The …

Summer grown green tea is less popular due to bitterness and high astringency, which are
attributed to high levels of tea polyphenols (TP) and low levels of amino acids (AA) in tea …

Brassinosteroids (BRs) are considered as the 6th group of plant growth regulators with
significant growth promoting activity. BRs were initially extensively studied for their profound …

Heavy metals have become part and parcel of environmental contamination because of
rapid industrialization and urbanization. The increasing levels of heavy metals in the …

Brassinosteroids are a group of over seventy steroid compounds whose discovery in lower
and higher plant organisms created new possibilities of plant growth control. The aim of the …

The chemical messengers produced during the regulation of physiological processes in the
life cycle of a plant, from germination to senescence, are regarded as plant hormones …