Mehboob Alam, Elizabeth T. Snow, Atsushi Tanaka
Drinking of arsenic (As) contaminated well water has become a serious threat to the health of many millions in Bangladesh. However, the implications of contamination of agricultural soils from long-term irrigation with As-contaminated groundwater for phyto-accumulation in food crops, and thence diet...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Kamrun Nahar, Masayuki Fujita
Sheikh Hasna Habib, Hossain Kausar, Halimi Mohd Saud
Salinity is a major environmental stress that limits crop production worldwide. In this study, we characterized plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) containing 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminase and examined their effect on salinity stress tolerance in okra through the inductio...
Shaikhul Islam, Abdul Mannan Akanda, Ananya Prova, Tofazzal Islam et al.
Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are the rhizosphere bacteria that may be utilized to augment plant growth and suppress plant diseases. The objectives of this study were to identify and characterize PGPR indigenous to cucumber rhizosphere in Bangladesh, and to evaluate their ability to su...
M. Azizur Rahman, Hiroshi Hasegawa, M. Arifur Rahman, M.A.M. Miah
A study was conducted to investigate the accumulation and distribution of arsenic in different fractions of rice grain (Oryza sativa L.) collected from arsenic affected area of Bangladesh. The agricultural soil of study area has become highly contaminated with arsenic due to the excessive use of ars...
Muhammad Ahsan Altaf, Rabia Shahid, Ming‐Xun Ren, Safina Naz et al.
Tomato is an important vegetable that is highly sensitive to drought (DR) stress which impairs the development of tomato seedlings. Recently, melatonin (ME) has emerged as a nontoxic, regulatory biomolecule that regulates plant growth and enhances the DR tolerance mechanism in plants. The present st...
Md. Ashrafuzzaman, FA Hossen, Ismail, Ariful Hoque et al.
Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are beneficial bacteria that colonize plant roots and enhance plant growth by a wide variety of mechanisms. The use of PGPR is steadily increasing in agriculture and offers an attractive way to replace chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and supplements. Her...
Razina Rouf, Shaikh Jamal Uddin, Dipto Kumer Sarker, Muhammad Torequl Islam et al.
Background Garlic (Allium sativum L.) is a common herb consumed worldwide as functional food and traditional remedy for the prevention of infectious diseases since ancient time. Garlic and its active organosulfur compounds (OSCs) have been reported to alleviate a number of viral infections in pre-cl...
Mohammad Khairul Alam
Umakanta Sarker, Shinya Oba
Four selected Amaranthus tricolor cultivars were grown under four irrigation regimes (25, 50, 80, and 100% field capacity) to evaluate the mechanisms of growth and physiological and biochemical responses against drought stress in randomized complete block design with three replications. Drought stre...
Seyed Y. S. Lisar, Rouhollah Motafakkerazad, M. Mosharraf, Ismail M. M. Rahm
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Md. Kamal Uddin, Abdul Shukor Juraimi, Md. Sabir Hossain, Most. Altaf Un Nahar et al.
Purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.) is an important plant naturally found as a weed in field crops and lawns. Purslane is widely distributed around the globe and is popular as a potherb in many areas of Europe, Asia, and the Mediterranean region. This plant possesses mucilaginous substances which are o...
Sujon Sarowar, Young Jin Kim, Eui Nam Kim, Ki Deok Kim et al.
A pepper gene, CABPR1, which encodes basic pathogenesis-related protein 1, has been reported to be strongly induced after ethephon treatment, wounding, and tobacco mosaic virus infection. The potential role of CABPR1 in tolerance of biotic or abiotic stresses was examined in transgenic Nicotiana tab...
M. Azizur Rahman, Hiroshi Hasegawa, M. Mahfuzur Rahman, Nazrul Islam et al.
A glass house experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of soil arsenic on photosynthetic pigments, chlorophyll-a and -b, and their correlations with rice yield and growth. The experiment was designed with three replications of six arsenic treatments viz. control, 10, 20, 30, 60, 90 mg of A...
E. T. Bingham, L. V. Hurley, D. M. Kaatz, J. W. Saunders
Tetraplold alfalfa ( Medicago sativa L.) germplasm, in which two‐thirds of the plants are capable of regeneration from callus tissue in culture, has been developed by recurrent selection. It descends from one ‘DuPuits’ and four ‘Saranac’ clones which regenerated in the cycle 0 population. Frequency ...