Acepted: 23 March 2009 summary. Drought stress is considered as a restricting factor for
plant products. Therefore, many compounds have been applied to minimize the harmful …

Drought stress is one of most dramatic abiotic stresses, reduces crop yield significantly.
Application of hormones proved as an effective drought stress ameliorating approach. 24 …

Drought stress is considered a restricting factor for plant products; therefore many
compounds were applied to minimise the harmful effects of stress. One type of these …

Pesticide residues in agricultural produce pose a threat to human health worldwide.
Although the detoxification mechanisms for xenobiotics have been extensively studied in …

Brassinosteroids (BRs) are plant hormones that were isolated for the first time in the 1970s.
This group currently includes more than 70 compounds that differ in their structure and …

Brassinosteroids (BS) are a class of polyhydroxylated steroidal plant hormones. They are of
ubiquitous occurrence in plant kingdom and are implicated in a wide range of physiological …

Brassinosteroids (BRs) have been rarely tested for their effective roles in mitigation of
deleterious effects of water stress (WS) on plants. In addition, the contribution of nitric oxide …

As sessile organisms, plants are frequently exposed to different stress conditions caused by
either biotic or abiotic factors. Understanding the mechanisms that underlie plant interaction …

Water deficit is considered the main abiotic stress that limits agricultural production
worldwide. Brassinosteroids (BRs) are natural substances that play roles in plant tolerance …

Brassinosteroids and hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2) are extensively used to combat several
environmental factors, including heavy metal stress in plants, but their cumulative impact on …