Global climate variations induce extreme temperatures and significantly decrease crop
production, leading to food insecurity worldwide. Temperature extremes (mainly cold stress …

Plants are extensively well-thought-out as the main source for nourishing natural life on
earth. In the natural environment, plants have to face several stresses, mainly heat stress …

Fruits are major sources of essential nutrients and serve as staple foods in some areas of
the world. The increasing human population and changes in climate experienced worldwide …

In the present study, the mechanisms employed by exogenous melatonin applying for
conferring chilling tolerance in tomato fruits during storage at 4° C for 28 days were …

Background NPR1, nonexpressor of pathogenesis-related gene 1, is a master regulator
involved in plant defense response to pathogens, and its regulatory mechanism in the …

Increasing the vulnerability of plants especially crops to a wide range of cold stress reduces
plant growth, development, yield production, and plant distribution. Cold stress induces …

Increasing agricultural productivity via modern breeding strategies is of prime interest to
attain global food security. An array of biotic and abiotic stressors affect productivity as well …

Plant natural products (PNPs) are the main sources of drugs, food additives, and new
biofuels and have become a hotspot in synthetic biology. In the past two decades, the …

The narrow genetic base of tomato poses serious challenges in breeding. Hence, with the
advent of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-associated …

Abiotic stresses, including drought, salinity, cold, heat, and heavy metals, extensively
reducing global agricultural production. Traditional breeding approaches and transgenic …