Shafaqat Ali, Zohaib Abbas, Muhammad Rizwan, Ihsan Elahi Zaheer et al.
Heavy-metal (HM) pollution is considered a leading source of environmental contamination. Heavy-metal pollution in ground water poses a serious threat to human health and the aquatic ecosystem. Conventional treatment technologies to remove the pollutants from wastewater are usually costly, time-cons...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Masayuki Fujita, Hirosuke Oku, Kamrun Nahar et al.
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. ...
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...
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...
Kamrun Nahar, Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Md. Mahabub Alam, Anisur Rahman et al.
Cadmium (Cd) contamination is a serious agricultural and environmental hazard. The study investigates cross-protection roles of putrescine (Put, 0.2 mM) and nitric oxide (sodium nitroprusside; SNP, 1 mM) in conferring Cd (CdCl2, 1.5 mM) tolerance in mung bean (Vigna radiata L. cv. BARI Mung-2) seedl...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Md. Mahabub Alam, Anisur Rahman, Md. Hasanuzzaman et al.
The present study investigates the roles of exogenous proline (Pro, 5 mM) and glycine betaine (GB, 5 mM) in improving salt stress tolerance in salt sensitive (BRRI dhan49) and salt tolerant (BRRI dhan54) rice (Oryza sativa L.) varieties. Salt stresses (150 and 300 mM NaCl for 48 h) significantly red...
Ali Raza, Madiha Habib, Shiva Najafi-Kakavand, Zainab Zahid et al.
Cadmium (Cd) is one of the most toxic metals in the environment, and has noxious effects on plant growth and production. Cd-accumulating plants showed reduced growth and productivity. Therefore, remediation of this non-essential and toxic pollutant is a prerequisite. Plant-based phytoremediation met...
Mohammad Saidur Rhaman, Shahin Imran, Farjana Rauf, Mousumi Khatun et al.
Plants are often exposed to abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, heat, cold, and heavy metals that induce complex responses, which result in reduced growth as well as crop yield. Phytohormones are well known for their regulatory role in plant growth and development, and they serve as importan...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Masayuki Fujita
The present study investigates the possible regulatory role of exogenous nitric oxide (NO) in mitigating oxidative stress in wheat seedlings exposed to arsenic (As). Seedlings were treated with NO donor (0.25 mM sodium nitroprusside, SNP) and As (0.25 and 0.5 mM Na2HAsO4·7H2O) separately and/or in c...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, M. H. M. Borhannuddin Bhuyan, Ali Raza, Barbara Hawrylak-Nowak et al.
Selenium (Se) is yet to be confirmed as essential for plants, but it has proven to be an essential trace element for humans and other animals. However, it is well documented that Se is a beneficial element for plants. Recent studies show that Se treatment at a low concentration exerts positive effec...