Abscisic acid (ABA) is a stress hormone that accumulates under different abiotic and biotic
stresses. A typical effect of ABA on leaves is to reduce transpirational water loss by closing …

Plant secondary metabolites are vital for human health leading to the gain the access to
natural products. The quality of crops is the result of the interaction of different biotic and …

Endophytes are microbial symbionts of plants which dwell within the internal tissues of
healthy plants without the manifestation of any infection symptoms on their hosts. In addition …

Environmental stress represents a major limitation for increasing crop productivity and the
use of natural resources. Most plants are exposed to various types of stress to different …

Light is essential for plants, but excessive light is damaging to plant health. Photoprotection
is defined as the prevention against damaging effects of intense solar radiation. Plants have …

Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) are a natural resource for secondary metabolite
compounds that are used in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industries due totheir …

Research studies about the effect of environmental agents on the accumulation of phenolic
compounds in medicinal plants are required to establish a set of optimal growth conditions …

Electrolyzed water (EW) has been proposed as a novel promising sanitizer and cleaner in
recent years. It is an effective antimicrobial and antibiofilm agent that has several …

Basil is an edible, aromatic plant, which makes the study of the ecotoxicity of metals in plant
metabolism relevant. Given the above, the objective of this study was to evaluate the effects …

In recent years, the demand for herbs and aromatic products has increased worldwide in the
herbal, flavor, and fragrance industry. Studies suggest that rapidly increasing anthropogenic …