Crop yield reduction as a consequence of increasingly severe climatic events threatens
global food security. Genetic loci that ensure productivity in challenging environments exist …

Unprecedented bioaccumulation and biomagnification of heavy metals (HMs) in the
environment have become a dilemma for all living organisms including plants. HMs at toxic …

Industrial revolution brought prodigious encroachment on agricultural productivity but at
apparent environmental costs. One of the major unfortunate consequences of …

Greater exploitation of subsoil resources by annual crops would afford multiple benefits,
including greater water and N acquisition in most agroecosystems, and greater …

Homeodomain leucine zipper (HD-ZIP) proteins are plant-specific transcription factors that
contain a homeodomain (HD) and a leucine zipper (LZ) domain. The highly conserved HD …

Aluminum (Al) toxicity is a significant constraint on agricultural productivity worldwide.
Melatonin (MT) has been shown to alleviate Al toxicity in plants; however, the underlying …

On acid soils, the trivalent aluminium ion (Al3+) predominates and is very rhizotoxic to most
plant species. For some native plant species adapted to acid soils including tea (Camellia …

Melatonin is a universal regulator modulating plant development and responses to abiotic
stresses. The alteration and potential roles of melatonin in mediating aluminum (Al) …

Aluminum (Al) toxicity is a major factor limiting crop production on acid soils, which represent
over 30% of the world's arable land. Some plants have evolved mechanisms to detoxify Al …

Abstract Toxic aluminum ions (Al3+) found in acidic soils are absorbed by plants and interact
with multiple sites during plant development, affecting especially the root growth. The …