Mira Rahman, Khussboo Rahman, Khadeja Sultana Sathi, Md. Mahabub Alam et al.
The present investigation was executed with an aim to evaluate the role of exogenous selenium (Se) and boron (B) in mitigating different levels of salt stress by enhancing the reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenging, antioxidant defense and glyoxalase systems in soybean. Plants were treated with 0,...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Kamrun Nahar, Md. Motiar Rohman, Taufika Islam Anee et al.
Remi Chakma, Pantamit Saekong, Arindam Biswas, Hayat Ullah et al.
Saju Adhikary, Benukar Biswas, Debashis Chakraborty, Jagadish Timsina et al.
Direct-seeded rice (DSR) seeds are often exposed to multiple environmental stresses in the field, leading to poor emergence, growth and productivity. Appropriate seed priming agents may help to overcome these challenges by ensuring uniform seed germination, and better seedling stand establishment. T...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Kamrun Nahar, Pedro García-Caparrós, Khursheda Parvin et al.
Selenium (Se) supplementation can restrict metal uptake by roots and translocation to shoots, which is one of the vital stress tolerance mechanisms. Selenium can also enhance cellular functions like membrane stability, mineral nutrition homeostasis, antioxidant response, photosynthesis, and thus imp...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Masashi Inafuku, Kamrun Nahar, Masayuki Fujita et al.
Facultative halophyte Kandelia obovata plants were exposed to mild (1.5% NaCl) and severe (3% NaCl) salt stress with or without sodium nitroprusside (SNP; 100 µM; a NO donor), hemoglobin (Hb, 100 µM; a NO scavenger), or Nω-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME, 100 µM; a NO synthase inhibitor). The ...
Sarfraz Ahmed, Muhammad Aamir Iqbal, Zahoor Ahmad, A. Artyszak et al.
Heavy metals (HMs) especially cadmium (Cd) absorbed by the roots of crop plants like maize have emerged as one of the most serious threats by causing stunted plant growth along with disturbing the photosynthetic machinery and nutrient homeostasis process. A trial was conducted for inducing Cd stress...
Qurban Ali Panhwar, Umme Aminun Naher, O. Radziah, J. Shamshuddin et al.
Aluminum toxicity is widely considered as the most important limiting factor for plants growing in acid sulfate soils. A study was conducted in laboratory and in field to ameliorate Al toxicity using plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB), ground magnesium limestone (GML) and ground basalt. Five-day...
MA Bari, Sadia Akter Prity, Urmi Das, Mst Salma Akther et al.
Abstract Cadmium (Cd) is detrimental to crops and the environment. This work examines the natural mechanisms underlying silicon‐ (Si‐)directed Cd detoxification in rice plants. The addition of Si to plants under Cd stress caused significant improvements in morphological parameters, chlorophyll score...
Nor Ismail Najihah, Mohamed Hanafi, Abu Seman Idris, Md. Abdul Hakim
Basal stem rot (BSR) disease, which is caused by the fungus Ganoderma boninense, is the major disease of oil palm in Malaysia and causes economic losses in the oil palm industry around the world. Plants that are treated with silicon (Si) show enhanced host resistance, perhaps because the accumulatio...
Md. Idris, Md. Mosharraf Hossain, F. A. Choudhury
Biswajit Pramanick, Koushik Brahmachari, Arup Ghosh, ST Zodape
On summer rice, foliar spray was applied thrice at different concentrations (0, 2.5, 5.0, 7.5, 10.0 and 15.0%, v/v) of seaweed extracts (namely, Kappaphycus sp. and Gracilaria sp.) along with the recommended dose of fertilizer (RDF). The highest grain yield was recorded with the applications of 15% ...
Gopal Saha, Mohammad Golam Mostofa, Md. Mezanur Rahman, Lam‐Son Phan Tran
Heat stress, resulting from global warming, is considered one of the major challenges to be addressed for increasing plant survival and productivity worldwide. Although plants have a built-in defense mechanism against heat stress, such strategy seems to be insufficient to counteract heat adversities...
Sajal Roy, Nasrin Chowdhury
High salt concentration in soil is a major abiotic stress, which adversely influences the growth, overall development, and productivity of crops. More than 20% of the land of the world used for crop production is adversely affected by high salt concentration. The problem of salt stress becomes a maj...
Anisur Rahman, Kamrun Nahar, Jubayer Al Mahmud, Mirza Hasanuzzaman et al.
Excess salinity in soil is one of the major environmental factors that limit plant growth and yield of a wide variety of crops including rice. On the basis of tolerance ability toward salinity, rice is considered as salt-sensitive crop, and growth and yield of rice are greatly affected by salinity. ...