Plants, due to their sessile nature, face several environmental adversities. Abiotic stresses
such as heat, cold, drought, heavy metals, and salinity are serious threats to plant production …

Salinity is a consistent factor of crop productivity loss in the world and in particular arid and
semi-arid areas where the soil salinity and saline water are major problems. Plants employ …

Climate change is a defining challenge of the 21st century, and this decade is a critical time
for action to mitigate the worst effects on human populations and ecosystems. Plant science …

Salinity is one of the major abiotic stresses which affects plant cell metabolism and reduces
plant productivity. Variations in the antioxidant defence systems under salinity among two …

Tolerance to high soil [Na+] involves processes in many different parts of the plant, and is
manifested in a wide range of specializations at disparate levels of organization, such as …

The use of soil and irrigation water with a high content of soluble salts is a major limiting
factor for crop productivity in the semi-arid areas of the world. While important physiological …

Despite a wealth of published research on salinity tolerance of plants, neither the metabolic
sites at which salt stress damages plants nor the adaptive mechanisms utilized by plants to …

Salt stress causes multifarious adverse effects in plants. Of them, production of reactive
oxygen species (ROS) is a common phenomenon. These ROS are highly reactive because …

The abiotic stresses of drought, salinity and freezing are linked by the fact that they all
decrease the availability of water to plant cells. This decreased availability of water is …

The effects of exogenous silicon (Si) on time dependent changes of the activities of major
antioxidant enzymes (superoxide dismutase, SOD; guaiacol peroxidase, GPX; ascorbate …