Simple Summary Higher plants face a variety of stress conditions. There are a number of
different antioxidant enzymes that help plants to cope with these stresses. During stresses …

Climate change-induced abiotic stress results in crop yield and production losses. These
stresses result in changes at the physiological and molecular level that affect the …

Abiotic stresses in plants reduce crop growth and productivity. Nanoparticles (NPs) are
effectively involved in the physiochemical processes of crop plants, especially under the …

Heavy metals is a collective term describing metals and metalloids with a density higher
than 5 g/cm3. Some of them are essential micronutrients; others do not play a positive role in …

Salt stress is a severe type of environmental stress. It adversely affects agricultural
production worldwide. The overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is the most …

Over-production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in plants under stress conditions is a
common phenomenon. Plants tend to counter this problem through their ability to synthesize …

In the natural environment, plants are exposed to a variety of biotic and abiotic stress
conditions that trigger rapid changes in the production and scavenging of reactive oxygen …

Climate change has increased the overall impact of abiotic stress conditions such as
drought, salinity, and extreme temperatures on plants. Abiotic stress adversely affects the …

Silicon (Si) is the second most abundant element in soil, where its availability to plants can
exhilarate to 10% of total dry weight of the plant. Si accumulation/transport occurs in the …

A total of 120 rhizobacteria were isolated from seven different tea estates of Darjeeling, West
Bengal, India. Based on a functional screening of in vitro plant growth-promoting (PGP) …