In the coming decades, maintaining a steady food supply for the increasing world population
will require high-yielding crop plants which can be productive under increasingly variable …

Frequently changing environmental conditions pose unwarranted threat to plants life and
impose serious penalties in terms of arrested growth, metabolism and ultimately the yield …

Overall growth and development of a plant is regulated by complex interactions among
various hormones, which is critical at different developmental stages. Some of the key …

Background Proteins are essential macronutrients of the human diet. Currently, major
dietary sources in developed countries are of animal origin. However, the association of red …

The ability of a seed to germinate and establish a plant at the right time of year is of vital
importance from an ecological and economical point of view. Due to the fragility of these …

In agriculture, heat stress (HS) has become one of the eminent abiotic threats to crop growth,
productivity and nutritional security because of the continuous increase in global mean …

Mangroves are halophytic plants belonging to diverse angiosperm families that are adapted
to highly stressful intertidal zones between land and sea. They are special, unique, and one …

The invasive nature of cyanotoxin-producing cyanobacteria and the adverse effects
concerning their toxic impacts have gained heightened scientific attention of late. The …

Abstract N6-methyladenosine (m 6 A) is the most abundant modification found in eukaryotic
mRNAs. The methyltransferases (“writers”) and demethylases (“erasers”) add and remove m …

High levels of cadmium (Cd) in soil can cause crop yield reduction or death. Cadmium
accumulation in crops affects human and animal health as it passes through the food chain …