Nutrient‐efficient crops are a solution to the two grand challenges of modern agriculture:
improving food security while reducing environmental impacts. The primary challenges are …

Microorganisms colonizing the plant rhizosphere provide a number of beneficial functions
for their host. Although an increasing number of investigations clarified the great functional …

Environmental pollution from hazardous waste materials, organic pollutants and heavy
metals, has adversely affected the natural ecosystem to the detriment of man. These …

Plant roots nurture a tremendous diversity of microbes via exudation of photosynthetically
fixed carbon sources. In turn, probiotic members of the root microbiome promote plant …

Ascorbic acid is synthesised by eukaryotes, the known exceptions being primates and some
other animal groups which have lost functional gulonolactone oxidase. Prokaryotes do not …

Fe-based nanoparticles (Fe-based NPs) have great potential as a substitute for traditional
Fe-fertilizer; however, their environmental risk and impact on plant growth are not fully …

As one of the major non–biological stresses, soil salinity negatively affects agricultural
productivity, microbial communities, and agricultural economics in impacted areas and is a …

Many trace metals are essential micronutrients, but also potent toxins. Due to natural and
anthropogenic causes, vastly different trace metal concentrations occur in various habitats …

Iron (Fe) is an essential micronutrient that affects the growth and development of plants
because it participates as a cofactor in numerous physiological and biochemical reactions …

Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) modules play key roles in the transduction of
environmental and developmental signals through phosphorylation of downstream signaling …