A majority of agricultural activities are conducted under fragile lands or set-up. The growth
and development of crops are negatively affected due to several biotic and abiotic stresses …

Most of the required increases in food production over the next decades are expected to be
achieved through increases in crop yield. As wheat is essential for food security it is worrying …

Wheat is an important crop, used as staple food in numerous countries around the world.
However, wheat productivity is low in the developing world due to several biotic and abiotic …

Weed infestations significantly reduce the growth and yield of field crops. Herbicides are
mostly used for weed management due to their quick results. However, resistant biotypes to …

BACKGROUND Calcium is an essential macronutrient for plant growth. Although it has been
shown that exogenous Ca application can increase plant resistance to abiotic stress, little is …

The world population will rise in future, which would demand more wheat production to fulfil
dietary needs of wheat-dependent population of the world. Food security in wheat …

Soil salinity is one of the significant abiotic threats to crops that deteriorates crop yields, and
the world's increasing population faces serious food problems due to abiotic threats. It is one …

As an abiotic stress, adverse germination temperatures cause serious disruptions in
physiological and biochemical processes involved in seed germination. Using a factorial …

Air pollution and climate change are tightly interconnected and jointly affect field crop
production and agroecosystem health. Although our understanding of the individual and …

Climate change, global warming, stagnant productivity of wheat and food security concerns
owing to frequent spells of drought stress (DS) have necessitated finding biologically viable …