[HTML][HTML] A role for zinc in plant defense against pathogens and herbivores

C Cabot, S Martos, M Llugany, B Gallego… - Frontiers in plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Pests and diseases pose a threat to food security, which is nowadays aggravated by climate
change and globalization. In this context, agricultural policies demand innovative …

Seed 'primeomics': plants memorize their germination under stress

AK Srivastava, J Suresh Kumar… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Seed priming is a pre‐germination treatment administered through various chemical,
physical and biological agents, which induce mild stress during the early phases of …

Seed nano-priming with Zinc Oxide nanoparticles in rice mitigates drought and enhances agronomic profile

M Waqas Mazhar, M Ishtiaq, I Hussain, A Parveen… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
All cereal crops, particularly rice are perpetually affected due to drastic climatic changes
which triggers different stressors resulting in food shortage scenarios across the globe. In …

[HTML][HTML] Zinc oxide nanoparticles alleviates the adverse effects of cadmium stress on Oryza sativa via modulation of the photosynthesis and antioxidant defense …

M Faizan, JA Bhat, K Hessini, F Yu, P Ahmad - … and Environmental Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
Cadmium (Cd) is a trace element causing severe toxicity symptoms in plants, besides
posing hazardous fitness issue due to its buildup in the human body through food chain …

Efficacy of priming wheat (Triticum aestivum) seeds with a benzothiazine derivative to improve drought stress tolerance

AA Al-Huqail, MH Saleem, B Ali, M Azeem… - Functional Plant …, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of different concentrations (0.05 and 0.15
mM) of a benzothiazine (BTh) derivative on wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) plants in normal …

Use of Nitric Oxide and Hydrogen Peroxide for Better Yield of Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under Water Deficit Conditions: Growth, Osmoregulation, and Antioxidative …

N Habib, Q Ali, S Ali, MT Javed, M Zulqurnain Haider… - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
The present experiment was carried out to study the influences of exogenously-applied nitric
oxide (NO) donor sodium nitroprusside (SNP) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as seed …

Goethite-modified biochar ameliorates the growth of rice (Oryza sativa L.) plants by suppressing Cd and As-induced oxidative stress in Cd and As co-contaminated …

MK Irshad, A Noman, HAS Alhaithloul, M Adeel… - Science of the total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Co-contamination of soils with cadmium (Cd) and arsenic (As) in rice growing areas is a
serious threat to environment and human health. Increase in soil Cd and As levels curtail the …

Seed priming with Calcium oxide nanoparticles improves germination, biomass, antioxidant defence and yield traits of canola plants under drought stress

MW Mazhar, M Ishtiaq, M Maqbool, R Akram - South African Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent advances in calcium signalling have proved that calcium plays a key role in
mitigating abiotic stresses and strengthening the internal defence of plants. In the present …

The critical role of biochar to mitigate the adverse impacts of drought and salinity stress in plants

Y Wu, X Wang, L Zhang, Y Zheng, X Liu… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Drought stress (DS) is a potential abiotic stress that is substantially reducing crop
productivity across the globe. Likewise, salinity stress (SS) is another serious abiotic stress …

ZnO nanoparticles mediated by Azadirachta indica as nano fertilizer: Improvement in physiological and biochemical indices of Zea mays grown in Cr-contaminated …

S Mehmood, W Ou, W Ahmed, J Bundschuh… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The current investigation aimed at evaluating the impact of Azadirachta indica-mediated zinc
oxide nanoparticles (Ai-ZnONPs) on the growth and biochemical characteristics of maize …