In the coming decades, maintaining a steady food supply for the increasing world population
will require high-yielding crop plants which can be productive under increasingly variable …

Drought is an important abiotic stress factor limiting crop productivity worldwide and its
impact is increasing with climate change. Regardless of the plant growth period, drought has …

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 …

Abiotic stresses are one of the major constraints to crop production and food security
worldwide. The situation has aggravated due to the drastic and rapid changes in global …

Plants face a combination of different abiotic stresses under field conditions which are lethal
to plant growth and production. Simultaneous occurrence of chilling and drought stresses in …

Grain legumes are important sources of proteins, essential micronutrients and vitamins and
for human nutrition. Climate change, including drought, is a severe threat to grain legume …

Salinity stress is a major threat to global food production and its intensity is continuously
increasing because of anthropogenic activities. Wheat is a staple food and a source of …

Drought is the most important crop production limiting factor in the changing climate
scenario and its intensity is predicted to increase in future. Sunflower is an important oilseed …

Seed priming is a presowing technique in which seeds are moderately hydrated to the point
where pregermination metabolic processes begin without actual germination. Seeds are …

Seed priming is a pre-sowing treatment which leads to a physiological state that enables
seed to germinate more efficiently. The majority of seed treatments are based on seed …