Increased temperatures caused by global warming threaten agricultural production, as
warmer conditions can inhibit plant growth and development or even destroy crops in …

Area under vegetable cultivation is expanding in arid and semi-arid regions of the world to
meet the nutritional requirements of an ever-growing population. However, water scarcity in …

Photosynthesis is a fundamental biosynthetic process in plants that can enhance carbon
absorption and increase crop productivity. Heat stress severely inhibits photosynthetic …

The use of Beneficial Microorganisms for Corals (BMCs) has been proposed recently as a
tool for the improvement of coral health, with knowledge in this research topic advancing …

Light is important for plants as an energy source and a developmental signal, but it can also
cause stress to plants and modulates responses to stress. Excess and fluctuating light result …

Increasing temperature and consequent changes in climate adversely affect plant growth
and development, resulting in catastrophic loss of wheat productivity. For each degree rise …

Salinity stress is one of the major threats to agricultural productivity across the globe.
Research in the past three decades, therefore, has focused on analyzing the effects of …

Chlorophyll fluorescence analysis is one of the most powerful and widely used techniques to
study the effect of stresses on the photosynthetic process. From the first utilization, the F v/F …

Chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence induction (transient), measured by exposing dark-adapted
samples to high light, shows a polyphasic rise, which has been the subject of extensive …

Plants as sessile organisms are continuously exposed to abiotic stress conditions that
impose numerous detrimental effects and cause tremendous loss of yield. Abiotic stresses …