Salinity stress is one of the major threats to agricultural productivity across the globe.
Research in the past three decades, therefore, has focused on analyzing the effects of …

The widespread distribution of organic and inorganic pollutants in water resources have
increased due to rapid industrialization. Rhizospheric zone-associated bacteria along with …

Introduction: Plants do not grow in isolation, rather they are hosts to a variety of microbes in
their natural environments. While, few thrive in the plants for their own benefit, others may …

Biotic stresses represent a serious threat to rice production to meet global food demand and
thus pose a major challenge for scientists, who need to understand the intricate defense …

Plant immune response is tightly controlled by an interplay of various phytohormones and
plant growth regulators. Among them, the role of salicylic acid, jasmonic acid, and ethylene …

Magnaporthe oryzae is one of the most devastating pathogenic fungi that affects a wide
range of cereal plants, especially rice. Rice blast disease causes substantial economic …

Emerging evidence supports the notion that selenium (Se) plays a beneficial role in plant
development for modern crop production and is considered an essential micronutrient and …

Plants are exposed to a variety of pests and pathogens that reduce crop productivity. Plants
respond to such attacks by activating a sophisticated signaling cascade that initiates with the …

A plethora of knowledge on the role of endophytic microorganisms has been reported in
recent years. The cooperative chemistry between the endophytes and the internal host …

Pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) play a key role in triggering PAMPs
triggered immunity (PTI) in plants. In the case of the rice-Magnaporthe oryzae pathosystem …