Plants have to counteract unavoidable stress-caused anomalies such as oxidative stress to
sustain their lives and serve heterotrophic organisms including humans. Among major …

Iron (Fe) is an essential nutrient for all living organisms but can lead to cytotoxicity when
present in excess. Fe toxicity often occurs in rice grown in submerged paddy fields with low …

The recognition of a positive correlation between organism genome size with its
transposable element (TE) content, represents a key discovery of the field of genome …

A pot experiment was performed to assess the useful effects of seed soaking or seedling
foliar spray using 0.25 mM spermine (Spm), 0.50 mM spermidine (Spd), or 1 mM putrescine …

Drought stress severely affects the growth and development of rice, especially at the
reproductive stage, which results in disturbed metabolic processes, reduced seed-set/grain …

Genetic biofortification is recognized as a cost-effective and sustainable strategy to reduce
micronutrient malnutrition. Genomic regions governing grain iron concentration (GFeC) …

Iron (Fe) toxicity is a major nutritional disorder of plants and affects rice yield and production
in rainfed and irrigated lowland rice grown in acid soils. Rice plants are reported to have …

Rice, a staple food for more than half of the world population, is an affordable source of
calorie, satisfying more than 20% of the calorie requirement on a global scale. Its cultivation …

Rice, a major food crop, is grown in a wide range of ecological conditions and suffers
significant yield losses as it is constantly exposed to a wide range of environmental and …

A plant, being a sessile organism, needs to modulate biochemical, physiological, and
molecular responses to the environment in a quick and efficient manner to be protected …