Riya Johnson, Kanchan Vishwakarma, Md. Shahadat Hossen, Vinod Kumar et al.
Potassium (K) is an essential element for the growth and development of plants; however, its scarcity or excessive level leads to distortion of numerous functions in plants. It takes part in the control of various significant functions in plant advancement. Because of the importance index, K is rega...
Tasir S. Per, Nafees A. Khan, Palakolanu Sudhakar Reddy, Asim Masood et al.
Major abiotic stress factors such as salt and drought adversely affect important physiological processes and biochemical mechanisms and cause severe loss in crop productivity worldwide. Plants develop various strategies to stand healthy against these stress factors. The accumulation of proline (Pro)...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Masayuki Fujita
N Akter, MR Islam
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Kamrun Nahar, Masayuki Fujita
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Kamrun Nahar, Md. Mahabub Alam, Prasanta Bhowmik et al.
Salinity is one of the rising problems causing tremendous yield losses in many regions of the world especially in arid and semiarid regions. To maximize crop productivity, these areas should be brought under utilization where there are options for removing salinity or using the salt-tolerant crops. ...
Md. Kamrul Hasan, Yuan Cheng, Mukesh Kumar Kanwar, Xianyao Chu et al.
Plants respond to environmental pollutants such as heavy metal(s) by triggering the expression of genes that encode proteins involved in stress response. Toxic metal ions profoundly affect the cellular protein homeostasis by interfering with the folding process and aggregation of nascent or non-nati...
Alessandro Pellegrineschi, Matthew Reynolds, Mario Pacheco, R. M. Brito et al.
One of the major environmental factors limiting plant productivity is lack of water. This is especially true for the major cereals maize, rice, and wheat, which demonstrate a range of susceptibility to moisture deficit. Although conventional breeding and marker-assisted selection are being used to d...
Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Masayuki Fujita
The present study investigates the possible mediatory role of exogenously applied glycinebetaine (betaine) and proline on reactive oxygen species (ROS) and methylglyoxal (MG) detoxification systems in mung bean seedlings subjected to cadmium (Cd) stress (1 mM CdCl2, 48 h). Cadmium stress caused a si...
Umakanta Sarker, Shinya Oba
Abstract The study was performed to explore physiological, non-enzymatic and enzymatic detoxification pathways of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in tolerance of Amaranthus tricolor under drought stress. The tolerant genotype VA13 exhibited lower reduction in growth, photosynthetic pigments, relative ...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Masayuki Fujita
In order to observe the possible regulatory role of selenium (Se) in relation to the changes in ascorbate (AsA) glutathione (GSH) levels and to the activities of antioxidant and glyoxalase pathway enzymes, rapeseed (Brassica napus) seedlings were grown in Petri dishes. A set of 10-day-old seedlings ...
Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Naser A. Anjum, Ritu Gill, Sandeep Yadav et al.
Abiotic stresses impact growth, development, and productivity, and significantly limit the global agricultural productivity mainly by impairing cellular physiology/biochemistry via elevating reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation. If not metabolized, ROS (such as O2 (•-), OH(•), H2O2, or (1)O2) ex...
Naser A. Anjum, Pallavi Sharma, Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Mirza Hasanuzzaman et al.
Plants have to counteract unavoidable stress-caused anomalies such as oxidative stress to sustain their lives and serve heterotrophic organisms including humans. Among major enzymatic antioxidants, catalase (CAT; EC 1.11.1.6) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX; EC 1.11.1.11) are representative heme enzym...
Aida Shomali, Susmita Das, Namira Arif, Mohammad Sarraf et al.
Flavonoids are characterized as the low molecular weight polyphenolic compounds universally distributed in planta. They are a chemically varied group of secondary metabolites with a broad range of biological activity. The increasing amount of evidence has demonstrated the various physiological funct...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Masayuki Fujita
The present study investigates the regulatory role of exogenous selenium (Se) in the antioxidant defense and methylglyoxal (MG) detoxification systems in rapeseed seedlings exposed to salt stress. Twelve-day-old seedlings, grown in Petri dishes, were supplemented with selenium (25 μM Na(2)SeO(4)) an...