Mechanisms of plant responses and adaptation to soil salinity

C Zhao, H Zhang, C Song, JK Zhu, S Shabala - The innovation, 2020 - cell.com
Soil salinity is a major environmental stress that restricts the growth and yield of crops.
Understanding the physiological, metabolic, and biochemical responses of plants to salt …

Seed priming: a feasible strategy to enhance drought tolerance in crop plants

V Marthandan, R Geetha, K Kumutha… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Drought is a serious threat to the farming community, biasing the crop productivity in arid
and semi-arid regions of the world. Drought adversely affects seed germination, plant …

Transcription factors interact with ABA through gene expression and signaling pathways to mitigate drought and salinity stress

Q Hussain, M Asim, R Zhang, R Khan, S Farooq, J Wu - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Among abiotic stressors, drought and salinity seriously affect crop growth worldwide. In
plants, research has aimed to increase stress-responsive protein synthesis upstream or …

Agricultural uses of plant biostimulants

P Calvo, L Nelson, JW Kloepper - Plant and soil, 2014 - Springer
Background Plant biostimulants are diverse substances and microorganisms used to
enhance plant growth. The global market for biostimulants is projected to increase 12% per …

Plant responses to simultaneous biotic and abiotic stress: molecular mechanisms

I Ben Rejeb, V Pastor, B Mauch-Mani - Plants, 2014 - mdpi.com
Plants are constantly confronted to both abiotic and biotic stresses that seriously reduce their
productivity. Plant responses to these stresses are complex and involve numerous …

Reconsidering plant memory: Intersections between stress recovery, RNA turnover, and epigenetics

PA Crisp, D Ganguly, SR Eichten, JO Borevitz… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Plants grow in dynamic environments where they can be exposed to a multitude of stressful
factors, all of which affect their development, yield, and, ultimately, reproductive success …

Priming and memory of stress responses in organisms lacking a nervous system

M Hilker, J Schwachtje, M Baier… - Biological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Experience and memory of environmental stimuli that indicate future stress can prepare
(prime) organismic stress responses even in species lacking a nervous system. The process …

[HTML][HTML] The interactive effects of simultaneous biotic and abiotic stresses on plants: mechanistic understanding from drought and pathogen combination

V Ramegowda, M Senthil-Kumar - Journal of plant physiology, 2015 - Elsevier
In nature, plants are simultaneously exposed to a combination of biotic and abiotic stresses
that limit crop yields. Only recently, researchers have started understanding the molecular …

Plant biostimulants: a review on the processing of macroalgae and use of extracts for crop management to reduce abiotic and biotic stresses

HSS Sharma, C Fleming, C Selby, JR Rao… - Journal of applied …, 2014 - Springer
A biostimulant is an organic material that, when applied in small quantities, enhances plant
growth and development such that the response cannot be attributed to the application of …

Seed priming for abiotic stress tolerance: an overview

KC Jisha, K Vijayakumari, JT Puthur - Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 2013 - Springer
Plants are exposed to any number of potentially adverse environmental conditions such as
water deficit, high salinity, extreme temperature, submergence, etc. These abiotic stresses …