Diverse physiological roles of flavonoids in plant environmental stress responses and tolerance

A Shomali, S Das, N Arif, M Sarraf, N Zahra, V Yadav… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Flavonoids are characterized as the low molecular weight polyphenolic compounds
universally distributed in planta. They are a chemically varied group of secondary …

Abiotic stress‐induced anthocyanins in plants: Their role in tolerance to abiotic stresses

AH Naing, CK Kim - Physiologia Plantarum, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abiotic stresses, such as heat, drought, salinity, low temperature, and heavy metals, inhibit
plant growth and reduce crop productivity. Abiotic stresses are becoming increasingly …

Enhancement of oxidative and drought tolerance in Arabidopsis by overaccumulation of antioxidant flavonoids

R Nakabayashi, K Yonekura‐Sakakibara… - The Plant …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The notion that plants use specialized metabolism to protect against environmental stresses
needs to be experimentally proven by addressing the question of whether stress tolerance …

Investigating the enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidant defense by applying iron oxide nanoparticles in Dracocephalum moldavica L. plant under salinity stress

H Moradbeygi, R Jamei, R Heidari, R Darvishzadeh - Scientia Horticulturae, 2020 - Elsevier
The effect of iron oxide nanoparticles (NPs), as a salinity stress modifier, was investigated on
plant growth and antioxidant systems in Dracocephalum moldavica L. The results showed …

Melatonin improved anthocyanin accumulation by regulating gene expressions and resulted in high reactive oxygen species scavenging capacity in cabbage

N Zhang, Q Sun, H Li, X Li, Y Cao, H Zhang… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
In this work, we found, that exogenous melatonin pretreatment improved anthocyanin
accumulation (1-to 2-fold) in cabbage. To verify the relationship with melatonin and …

Anthocyanins are key regulators of drought stress tolerance in tobacco

V Cirillo, V D'Amelia, M Esposito, C Amitrano, P Carillo… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Water scarcity is one of the main threats for the future of agriculture and the
worldwide population. Improving the ability of crop species to grow and survive with less …

A review on the beneficial role of silicon against salinity in non-accumulator crops: tomato as a model

J Hoffmann, R Berni, JF Hausman, G Guerriero - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Salinity is an abiotic stress that affects agriculture by severely impacting crop growth and,
consequently, final yield. Considering that sea levels rise at an alarming rate of> 3 mm per …

Effective use of water in crop plants in dryland agriculture: implications of reactive oxygen species and antioxidative system

J Rane, AK Singh, M Tiwari, PVV Prasad… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Under dryland conditions, annual and perennial food crops are exposed to dry spells,
severely affecting crop productivity by limiting available soil moisture at critical and sensitive …

Sucrose signaling pathways leading to fructan and anthocyanin accumulation: a dual function in abiotic and biotic stress responses?

W Van den Ende, SK El-Esawe - Environmental and Experimental Botany, 2014 - Elsevier
In a changing world, plants are exposed to ever changing environmental conditions. Since
plants cannot escape from their environment, they require extra flexibility to adapt …

Research progress of betalain in response to adverse stresses and evolutionary relationship compared with anthocyanin

G Li, X Meng, M Zhu, Z Li - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Betalains are applicable to many aspects of life, and their properties, characteristics,
extraction and biosynthesis process have been thoroughly studied. Although betalains are …