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Hormesis as a Particular Type of Plant Stress Response [PDF]
PlantsPlants are continuously exposed to various abiotic and biotic stress factors, which influence their growth, productivity, and ecological fitness. This paper clarifies the concept of hormesis as a distinct low-dose stress response to toxic substances and ...
Agnieszka Siemieniuk +3 more
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Morpho-physiological and biochemical response of rice (Oryza sativa L.) to drought stress: A review
Heliyon, 2023 Global food shortages are caused mainly by drought, the primary driver of yield loss in agriculture worldwide. Drought stress negatively impacts the physiological and morphological characteristics of rice (Oryza sativa L.), limiting the plant ...
Utsav Bhandari +9 more
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A win-win scenario for photosynthesis and the plasma membrane H+ pump
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 In plants, cytosolic and extracellular pH homeostasis are crucial for various physiological processes, including the uptake of macronutrients and micronutrients, cell elongation, cell expansion, and enzyme activity. Proton (H+) gradients and the membrane
Satoru N. Kinoshita +2 more
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Salinity Stress in Potato: Understanding Physiological, Biochemical and Molecular Responses
Life, 2021 Among abiotic stresses, salinity is a major global threat to agriculture, causing severe damage to crop production and productivity. Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is regarded as a future food crop by FAO to ensure food security, which is severely affected ...
Kumar Nishant Chourasia +14 more
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Plants, 2023 Soil salinity is a major abiotic stress in global agricultural productivity with an estimated 50% of arable land predicted to become salinized by 2050. Since most domesticated crops are glycophytes, they cannot be cultivated on salt soils.
Gianluigi Giannelli +2 more
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Distinguishing Growth Stages of Wheat Crop by Remote Sensing Techniques and Time Series Analysis [PDF]
Biomechanism and Bioenergy Research, 2022 Remote sensing has attracted the attentions by providing a broad and comprehensive view of the world. The use of remote sensing in various fields such as agriculture is constantly expanding.
Mehdi Saadikhani +3 more
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A Short Review on the Development of Salt Tolerant Cultivars in Rice [PDF]
, 2016 Rice is staple food for half of the world. With a population of almost 9.6 billion by the year 2050, there is a dire need of developing techniques to improve the crop plants, not only in terms of better yield but also to withstand harsh environmental ...
Jahan, N. (Nusrat) +3 more
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Approximate entropy: a promising tool to understand the hidden electrical activity of fruit
Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2023 Fruits, like other parts of the plant, appear to have a rich electrical activity that may contain information. Here, we present data showing differences in the electrome complexity of tomato fruits through ripening and discuss possible physiological ...
Gabriela Niemeyer Reissig +6 more
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The role of active movement in fungal ecology and community assembly [PDF]
, 2019 Movement ecology aims to provide common terminology and an integrative framework of movement research across all groups of organisms. Yet such work has focused on unitary organisms so far, and thus the important group of filamentous fungi has not been ...
Aguilar-Trigueros, Carlos A. +4 more
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The microbiologist’s guide to membrane potential dynamics [PDF]
, 2020 All cellular membranes have the functionality of generating and maintaining the gradients of electrical and electrochemical potentials. Such potentials were generally thought to be an essential but homeostatic contributor to complex bacterial behaviors ...
Asally, Munehiro, Benarroch, Jonatan M.
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