The plant kingdom contains an enormous diversity of bioactive compounds which regulate
plant growth and defends against biotic and abiotic stress. Some of these compounds, like …

Sweet peppers are consumed worldwide, and traditional uses have sparked interest in their
applications as dietary antioxidants, which can be enhanced in plants using elicitors. These …

Heat stress (HS), caused by extremely high temperatures, is one of the most severe forms of
abiotic stress in pepper. In the present study, we studied the transcriptome and metabolome …

The Capsicum L. belonging to the family Solanaceae is an economically important genus of
flowering plants. This genus comprises more than 30 species with its unique characteristic …

Highlights•Plants are considered to biosynthesize specialized metabolites to adapt to
environmental stresses.•The function of metabolites induced by abiotic stress in vivo is …

Temperature, water, and light are three stress factors that have major influences on plant
growth, development, and reproduction. Plants can be primed to an acclimated state by a …

Heat and drought stresses are presently the principal risk on world's food quantity, limiting
yield. Both of these two stresses affect plants metabolism, physiological and morphological …

BACKGROUND Plants activate defense mechanisms to cope with adverse environmental
conditions, leading to the accumulation and/or depletion of general and specialized …

At adverse environmental conditions, plants produce various kinds of primary and
secondary metabolites to protect themselves. Both primary and secondary metabolites play …

Several environmental stresses, including biotic and abiotic factors, adversely affect the
growth and development of crops, thereby lowering their yield. However, abiotic factors, eg …