One of the challenges being faced by the fruit crop production globally is that regional
climate regimes are becoming more unpredictable every year. The exact impact of these …

Polyamines are unique polycationic metabolites, controlling a variety of vital functions in
plants, including growth and stress responses. Over the last two decades a bulk of data was …

WRKY proteins comprise a large family of transcription factors that play important roles in
plant defence regulatory networks, including responses to various biotic and abiotic …

Nuclear Factor-Y (NF-Y), composed of three subunits NF-YA, NF-YB and NF-YC, exists in
most of the eukaryotes and is relatively conservative in evolution. As compared to animals …

Endogenous plant growth regulators play an important role in regulating plant responses to
abiotic stress by sensitizing growth and developmental processes. While the physiological …

The foreseen increase in evaporative demand and reduction in rainfall occurrence are
expected to stress the abiotic constrains of drought and salt concentration in soil. The …

The evaluation of physiological and biochemical aspects is essential to identify clues that
can assist breeders in selecting Persian walnut genotypes with considerable tolerance to …

Major abiotic stresses such as heat, drought, salinity, heavy metal, light, pesticide, and cold
are considered the great threat for the food and environmental security of the increasing …

Drought is a multifaceted stress condition that inhibits crop growth. Seed germination is one
of the critical and sensitive stages of plants, and its process is inhibited or even entirely …

The selection of salt-tolerant watermelon rootstocks requires the evaluation of its underlying
mechanism. The present study investigated the effect of applying 200 mmol· L− 1 NaCl on …