Trials were set to assess salinity and water deficit effects on seed germination and recovery of populations of Lotus creticus L. and Lotus ornithopodioides L. species collecte...

Rice (OryzaSativaL.) is a major staple food of majority of people in different countries of the world. Rice is highly susceptible to salinity and its yield is severely limited under sal...

Understanding salinity-fertilizer relationship is of considerable economic importance. Salinity is one of the abiotic stresses limiting crop productivity, especially in arid and semi-arid region...

Endophyte-infected (E+) and endophyte-free (E–) wild barley (Hordeum brevisubulatum) tillers were grown in half-strength Hoagland nutrient solution usin...

Studies were conducted to evaluate salt tolerance in some amphidiploids species of Brassica (Family: Brassicaceae) at seedling stage (under gravel culture) and at maturity (und...

Cadmium is a major threat to agricultural production and human health. Exogenous hydrogen plays an important role in plant stress resistance through a mechanism that remains unknown. To elucidat...

A pot-culture study was conducted to estimate the role of abscisic acid (ABA) and its regulatory mechanisms in maize seedlings to adapt water deficit and re-watering c...

Wheat is one of the most important cereal crop significantly affected by continual and terminal heat stress. Phytohormones are recognized as a strong tool for sustaina...

A pot experiment was conducted to investigate the bioaccumulation of nickel in chickpea Cicer arietinum L. and its impact on growth, seed yield and mineral co...

Robust, rapid bioindicators of heavy metal water pollution, which are responsible for increasing environmental threats globally, are required. In the present study, we...

Lisianthus (Eustoma grandiflorum) belongs to family Gentianaceae is becoming one of the most highly ranked cut flowers in international market. Lisianthus seeds exhibited cold-related d...

DNA damage is one of the key parameters to detect UV-B tolerance because DNA is one of the primary targets for UV-B light. Here, we evaluated UV-B stress-induced genom...

Potted Begonia semperflorens were exposed to different levels of shading (25%, 50%, 75%, 87%, and 93%) to investigate the response of the morphological and ph...

Stress induced cell damages leading necrosis is considered as major challenges in sustainable agriculture production in times of climate change and can be prevented by...

Lindera glauca (Lauraceae), widely distributed in the subtropical region, is a tree of economic and ecological significance. Its fruits are rich in oil and ...

Eichhornia crassipes was one of the fastest growing plants on earth. It can assimilate nitrogen very efficiently. Glutamine synthetase (GS) is a key enzyme in...

In the present study, 120 out of 150 barley double haploid lines, obtained by crossing ‘Steptoe’ x ‘Morex’, were screened for the 4 traits incl...

In order to reveal the genetic basis of wheat FHB resistance of a recombinant inbreed line (RIL) population including 160 plants derived from a cross between PI277012 ...

In recent years CRISPR Cas9 system has been proved as a versatile genetic tool for efficient target mutation in a variety of plants.  (CRISPR)-associated Cas9 Nuc...

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) originated in East Africa specifically Sudan and Ethiopia where wild relatives of sorghum are widely distributed. The wild relatives harbored impor...

The effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs, created by high tension wires) were studied on 34 plant specimens belonging to 9 species of 3 angiosperm families, i.e., B...

This study aims to find out if the cytotoxic and genotoxic responses of Allium cepa are valuable biomarkers of the current conventional wastewater treatment p...

The plantlets of date palm were regenerated using somatic embryogenesis. The combination of phytohormones, 5 mg BA/L and 80 mg 2,4-D/L gave the highest percentage of callus induction (88%) as co...

This article represents data on determination of heavy metals (Pb, Cd, Zn, Cu, Mn, Co, Ni) in the samples of dominant plants and soils of Atyrau region in Kazakhstan. ...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small RNAs, noncoding and transcribed endogenously that directly involved in regulating gene expression at the post-transcriptional l...

Underestimated lesser-known species often prove to be a very attractive object of research. For example, they adapt very well to various marginal growing conditions, e.g. highlands, arid areas, ...

This research was carried out on the individual plants of lavender (Lavandula angustifolia Mill.). In this research, the main aim was to find out the characte...

Reaumuria soongorica endemic to Alashan desert, Inner Mongolia, China is tolerant to extreme arid and saline soil environment that plays a vital role in maintaining environmental sustai...

This paper provides the first comprehensive checklist of vascular plant flora of dams and water breakers in hyper-arid desert habitats of the United Arab Emirates (UAE...

Pollen grains of 5 taxa from the genus Fritillaria L. in Iran were studied by scanning electron microscopy. Detailed pollen morphological features are given for these taxa. Pollens were...

While β-diversity is shaped by spatial turnover and nestedness, research on the effects of spatial patterns of plants on these components of β-diversity is l...

This study was carried out in four districts of Punjab i.e. Gujranwala, Gujrat, Narowal and Sialkot, which represents the north-east region of Pakistan. The sampling w...

Observational and quantitative ring width characteristics of 4 pine species i.e., 1. Abies pindrow, 2. Cedrus deodara, 3. Pinus wallichiana, 4. Pinus roxburghii...

Sclerocarya birrea (A Rich.) Hochst. subspecies caffra (Sond) is a plant species belonging to the Anacardiaceae family. In South Africa, it is domina...

Pollen of grasses have been recognized as major aeroallergens. It is reported that grass pollen may trigger respiratory allergies particularly allergic rhinitis and asthma in approximately 40% o...

Since ancient times, essential oils are recognized for their medicinal value and are very interesting and powerful natural plant products. The present study aimed at investigating and comparing ...

The potential of Gallic acid as a broad-spectrum antibiotic was established by evaluating five solvent extracted samples (crude extract and its four fractions) from th...

Adhatoda vasica and Calotropis procera species are worldwide available but poorly investigated as an important resource of bioactive compounds and antimicrobial activities for ...

In order to produce high-yield and oil content Swida wilsoniana species, 28 agronomic traits in 7 Swida wilsoniana clones were measured and analyzed ...

Citric acid is an edible acid with the current global demand of 1.7x106 tons/annum. It is required to improve the industrial production of citric acid to sa...

Neolentinus lepedius (Fr.) Redhead & Ginns is a lignicolous/saprophytic macrofungus found on the dead logs of pine vegetation of Himalayan forests, not pr...

Microwaves are non-ionizing radiations known to stimulate seed germination and growth. A complete randomized design screen house experiment was performed to evaluate the effect of microwave radi...

The effects of simulated acid rain at pH 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.6 and 6.8(control) on the morphological characteristics, chlorophyll content, resistance physiology and active ingredient content of ...

Panax notoginseng (Burk.) F. H. Chen (Sanchi or Sanqi in Chinese) is a well-known and valuable traditional Chinese herbal medicine, which is currently planted...

Seaweed can promote plant growth and also enable them to tolerate drought, disease or frost. In this study, eight seaweeds Stokeyiaindica, Stoechospermum marginatum, Sargas...

Cellulases, group of industrially important enzymes, are commercially obtained from mold or bacterial strains. Yeasts strains have scarcely been reported for their cellulolytic potential and are...

The present study deals with the qualitative and quantitative analysis of ergot alkaloids produced by Aspergillus niger using surface culture fermentation technique. Two different ferme...

The coding sequence of Cyanobacterium hemoglobin (CHb) gene, from Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, was inserted into vectors pET-3...

This study was conducted in Chad to reveal changes in the nutritional composition of Spirulina platensis from different sampling sites. For each asse...

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Qualitative and quantitative improvement of economically important plant species has remained a prime priority of mankind for decades. These improvements are generally...