Ozone a persistent challenge to food security in India: current status and policy implications

A Mukherjee, DS Yadav, SB Agrawal… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
With the rising population, urbanization and industrialization, tropospheric ozone (O 3)
pollution has become a serious challenge to India's food security. We have reviewed the O 3 …

Air pollution and plant health response-current status and future directions

P Anand, U Mina, M Khare, P Kumar… - Atmospheric pollution …, 2022 - Elsevier
Air pollutants influence the morphological, physiological, and biochemical status of plants,
and their impacts vary substantially among different species and cultivars. Current review …

A comprehensive assessment of yield loss in rice due to surface ozone pollution in India during 2005–2020: A great concern for food security

KS Anagha, J Kuttippurath, M Sharma, J Cuesta - Agricultural Systems, 2024 - Elsevier
CONTEXT About 60% of the world population relies primarily on rice as their staple food,
and India ranks second in terms of global rice production. Studies have shown the adverse …

Ozone exposure response on physiological and biochemical parameters vis-a-vis secondary metabolites in a traditional medicinal plant Sida cordifolia L.

N Ansari, DS Yadav, P Singh, M Agrawal… - Industrial Crops and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tropospheric ozone is a phytotoxic air pollutant that alters the production of bioactive
compounds and key metabolites of plants. A field study was established on a medicinal …

Sensitivity of agricultural crops to tropospheric ozone: a review of Indian researches

A Gupta, DS Yadav, SB Agrawal, M Agrawal - … Monitoring and Assessment, 2022 - Springer
Tropospheric ozone (O3) is a long-range transboundary secondary air pollutant, causing
significant damage to agricultural crops worldwide. There are substantial spatial variations …

Wheat yield response to elevated O3 concentrations differs between the world's major producing regions

Y Xu, K Kobayashi, Z Feng - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Ground-level ozone (O 3) concentration is rising in Asia, which accommodates the
world's top-two wheat producers (China and India). Because wheat is among the species of …

Plant defense mechanisms against ozone stress: Insights from secondary metabolism

C Guo, X Wang, Q Wang, Z Zhao, B Xie, L Xu… - Environmental and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ozone pollution is a serious global environmental problem, with surface ozone
concentrations consistently ranking among the top air pollutants. In response to ozone …

Identification of key responsive leaf physiochemical traits for ozone sensitivity in 16 Italian cultivars of Triticum durum subjected to peak concentrations

V Picchi, S Risoli, C Nali, G Lorenzini… - Journal of Agronomy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Plants of 16 Italian cultivars of durum wheat at the tillering stage were exposed to a single
pulse of ozone (O3, 200 ppb, 5 h) to reveal the mechanisms explaining their O3 …

Interactive effects and competitive shift between Triticum aestivum L.(wheat) and Chenopodium album L.(fat-hen) under ambient and elevated ozone

A Ghosh, B Pandey, M Agrawal, SB Agrawal - Environmental Pollution, 2020 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of ambient and elevated O 3 (ambient+ 20
ppb) under the competition between a crop plant Triticum aestivum L. cv. HD 2967 and a …

Effect of elevated ozone on the antioxidant response, genomic stability, DNA methylation pattern and yield in three species of Abelmoschus having different ploidy …

P Singh, N Ansari, SP Rai, M Agrawal… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
The majority of polyploids can withstand many stresses better than their monoploid
counterparts; however, there is no proven mechanism that can fully explain the level of …