Abiotic stresses including drought, salinity, heat, cold, flooding, and ultraviolet radiation
causes crop losses worldwide. In recent times, preventing these crop losses and producing …

Accumulation and enrichment of excessive heavy metals due to industrialization and
modernization not only devastate our ecosystem, but also pose a threat to the global …

Heavy metal contamination of soil and water causing toxicity/stress has become one
important constraint to crop productivity and quality. This situation has further worsened by …

The negative effects of environmental stresses, such as low temperature, high temperature,
salinity, drought, heavy metal stress, and biotic stress significantly decrease crop …

Microalgae have many commercial applications including biofuel production, use in human
and animal nutrition, as pharmaceuticals and therapeutic compounds, in beauty-related …

Brassinosteroids (BRs) are group of plant steroidal hormones that modulate developmental
processes and also have pivotal role in stress management. Biosynthesis of BRs takes …

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 …

The present study was undertaken to test the influence of exogenously applied
phytohormones: auxins (IAA, IBA, NAA, PAA), cytokinins (BA, CPPU, DPU, 2iP, Kin, TDZ, Z) …

The objective of the present work was to evaluate the effect of exogenously applied
cadmium on the physiological response of green algae Chlorella vulgaris. The study …

The effect of exogenously applied natural [indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), phenylacetic acid
(PAA), indole-3-butyric acid (IBA)] and synthetic [1-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA)] auxins on …