Plants regularly face adverse growth conditions, such as drought, salinity, chilling, freezing,
and high temperatures. These stresses can delay growth and development, reduce …

More than one third of the world's irrigated lands are affected by salinity, which has great
impact on plant growth and yield worldwide. Proline accumulation under salt stress has …

Drought is one of the major constraints limiting crop production worldwide. Crop growth
models predict that this issue will be more severe in future. Drought impairs normal growth …

World population is increasing at an alarming rate and is expected to reach about six billion
by the end of year 2050. On the other hand food productivity is decreasing due to the effect …

Various compatible solutes enable plants to tolerate abiotic stress, and glycinebetaine (GB)
is one of the most‐studied among such solutes. Early research on GB focused on the …

The increasing seriousness of salinization aggravates the food, population and
environmental issues. Ameliorating the salt-resistance of plants especially the crops is the …

Plants must adapt to drought stress to survive. The phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) is
produced under drought stress conditions and is essential for the response to drought …

Salt stress imposes a major environmental threat to agriculture and its adverse impacts are
getting more serious problem in regions where saline water is used for irrigation. Therefore …

Glycinebetaine (GB) has been studied extensively as a compatible solute because of the
availability of GB-accumulating transgenic plants that harbor a variety of transgenes for GB …

The ability of plants to tolerate drought conditions is crucial for agricultural production
worldwide. Recent progress has been made in our understanding of gene expression …