The native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and vermicompost-based organic amendments enhance soil fertility, growth performance, and the drought stress tolerance of …

W Benaffari, A Boutasknit, M Anli, M Ait-El-Mokhtar… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
The present study aimed to determine the effects of biostimulants on the physicochemical
parameters of the agricultural soil of quinoa under two water regimes and to understand the …

Salt-tolerant plant growth-promoting bacteria as a versatile tool for combating salt stress in crop plants

X **e, L Gan, C Wang, T He - Archives of Microbiology, 2024 - Springer
Soil salinization poses a great threat to global agricultural ecosystems, and finding ways to
improve the soils affected by salt and maintain soil health and sustainable productivity has …

Self-defense mechanism in rice to salinity: proline

YE Koc, M Aycan, T Mitsui - J, 2024 - mdpi.com
The increasing global population and climate change threaten food security, with the need
for sustenance expected to rise by 85% by 2050. Rice, a crucial staple food for over 50% of …

Impact of single and combined salinity and high-temperature stresses on agro-physiological, biochemical, and transcriptional responses in rice and stress-release

L Nahar, M Aycan, S Hanamata, M Baslam, T Mitsui - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Here, for the first time, we aimed to identify in rice the key mechanisms and processes
underlying tolerance to high-temperature (HT) or salt stress (SS) alone, the co-occurrence of …

Improving saline-alkali soil and promoting wheat growth by co-applying potassium-solubilizing bacteria and cyanobacteria produced from brewery wastewater

H Duan, W Liu, L Zhou, B Han, S Huo… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Soil salinization is a serious ecological problem. Bacteria and cyanobacteria both have
great potential for saline-alkali soil improvement. However, the effect of co-applying bacteria …

Exogenous proline suppresses endogenous proline and proline-production genes but improves the salinity tolerance capacity of salt-sensitive rice by stimulating …

YE Koc, M Aycan, T Mitsui - Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Salinity is a critical environmental stress factor that significantly reduces crop productivity
and yield. A mutant B-type response regulator gene (hst1) has been shown to promote …

B-type response regulator hst1 controls salinity tolerance in rice by regulating transcription factors and antioxidant mechanisms

M Aycan, L Nahar, M Baslam, T Mitsui - Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Salinity is a serious environmental problem that limits plant yield in almost half of the
agricultural fields. The hitomebore salt tolerant 1 (hst1) is a mutant B-type response …

Tolerance with High Yield Potential Is Provided by Lower Na+ Ion Accumulation and Higher Photosynthetic Activity in Tolerant YNU31-2-4 Rice Genotype under …

L Nahar, M Aycan, EM Lopes Hornai, M Baslam… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
The yield-reduction effect of abiotic stressors such as salinity and heat stresses with the
growing world population threatens food security. Although adverse effects of salinity and …

Spectral reflectance indices' performance to identify seawater salinity tolerance in bread wheat genotypes using genotype by yield* trait biplot approach

AMS Elfanah, MA Darwish, AI Selim, MMA Shabana… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Salinity stress harms crop yield and productivity worldwide. This study aimed to identify
genotypes with higher grain yield and/or salinity tolerance from forty bread wheat genotypes …

Transgenerational plasticity in salinity tolerance of rice: unraveling non-genetic phenotypic modifications and environmental influences

M Aycan, L Nahar, M Baslam… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Transgenerational plasticity in plants enables rapid adaptation to environmental changes,
allowing organisms and their offspring to adapt to the environment without altering their …