Soil salinity is one of the major abiotic stresses restricting the use of land for agriculture
because it limits the growth and development of most crop plants. Improving productivity …

Abstract Background and Aims Osmolytes are low-molecular-weight organic solutes, a
broad group that encompasses a variety of compounds such as amino acids, tertiary …

Halophytes are defined as plants that are adapted to live in soils containing high
concentrations of salt and benefiting from it, and thus represent an ideal model to …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are continuously generated as a consequence of plant
metabolic processes due to incomplete reduction of O 2. Previously considered to be only …

More than one third of the world's irrigated lands are affected by salinity, which has great
impact on plant growth and yield worldwide. Proline accumulation under salt stress has …

Metabolites reflect the integration of gene expression, protein interaction and other different
regulatory processes and are therefore closer to the phenotype than mRNA transcripts or …

Plant growth and development is adversely affected by different kind of stresses. One of the
major abiotic stresses, salinity, causes complex changes in plants by influencing the …

Accumulation of proline in higher plants is an indication of disturbed physiological condition,
triggered by biotic or abiotic stress condition. Free proline content can increase upon …

Production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which are a by-product of normal cell
metabolism in living organisms, is an inevitable consequence of aerobic life on Earth, and …

Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are beneficial microorganisms that can be
utilized to improve plant responses against biotic and abiotic stresses. In this study, we …