[HTML][HTML] Food legumes and rising temperatures: effects, adaptive functional mechanisms specific to reproductive growth stage and strategies to improve heat tolerance

K Sita, A Sehgal, B HanumanthaRao, RM Nair… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Ambient temperatures are predicted to rise in the future owing to several reasons associated
with global climate changes. These temperature increases can result in heat stress-a severe …

Effects of brassinosteroids on the plant responses to environmental stresses

A Bajguz, S Hayat - Plant physiology and biochemistry, 2009 - Elsevier
Brassinosteroids are found in a wide range of organisms from lower to higher plants. They
are steroidal plant hormones implicated in the promotion of plant growth and development …

[HTML][HTML] Temperature stress and redox homeostasis in agricultural crops

R Awasthi, K Bhandari, H Nayyar - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Plants are exposed to a wide range of environmental conditions and one of the major forces
that shape the structure and function of plants are temperature stresses, which include low …

Brassinosteroids and their role in response of plants to abiotic stresses

Q Fariduddin, M Yusuf, I Ahmad, A Ahmad - Biologia plantarum, 2014 - Springer
Brassinosteroids (BRs) are polyhydroxylated steroidal plant hormones that play pivotal role
in the regulation of various plant growth and development processes. BR biosynthetic or …

[HTML][HTML] Brassinosteroids make plant life easier under abiotic stresses mainly by modulating major components of antioxidant defense system

BV Vardhini, NA Anjum - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Various abiotic stress factors significantly contribute to major worldwide-losses in crop
productivity by mainly impacting plant's stress tolerance/adaptive capacity. The latter is …

Food crops face rising temperatures: an overview of responses, adaptive mechanisms, and approaches to improve heat tolerance

N Kaushal, K Bhandari, KHM Siddique… - Cogent food & …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The rising temperatures are resulting in heat stress for various agricultural crops to limit their
growth, metabolism, and leading to significant loss of yield potential worldwide. Heat stress …

Hormone interactions in stomatal function

BR Acharya, SM Assmann - Plant molecular biology, 2009 - Springer
Research in recent years on the biology of guard cells has shown that these specialized
cells integrate both extra-and intra-cellular signals in the control of stomatal apertures …

Boosting crop yields with plant steroids

C Vriet, E Russinova, C Reuzeau - The Plant Cell, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Plant sterols and steroid hormones, the brassinosteroids (BRs), are compounds that exert a
wide range of biological activities. They are essential for plant growth, reproduction, and …

Phytohormone regulation of legume-rhizobia interactions

BJ Ferguson, U Mathesius - Journal of chemical ecology, 2014 - Springer
The symbiosis between legumes and nitrogen fixing bacteria called rhizobia leads to the
formation of root nodules. Nodules are highly organized root organs that form in response to …

Effect of brassinosteroids on drought resistance and abscisic acid concentration in tomato under water stress

GF Yuan, CG Jia, Z Li, B Sun, LP Zhang, N Liu… - Scientia …, 2010 - Elsevier
The effect of brassinosteroid (BR) on relative water content (RWC), stomatal conductance
(gs), net photosynthetic rate (PN), intercellular CO2 concentration (Ci), lipid peroxidation …