The environmental stress is a major area of scientific concern because it constraints plant as
well as crop productivity. This situation has been further worsened by anthropogenic …

High salt concentrations in the growing medium can severely affect the growth and
development of plants. It is imperative to understand the different components of salt-tolerant …

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic metabolic disease which causes millions of death all
over the world each year, and its incidence is on increase. The most prevalent form, type 2 …

Plants are generally well adapted to a wide range of environmental conditions. Even though
they have notably prospered in our planet, stressful conditions such as salinity, drought and …

Although the presence of mannitol in organisms as diverse as plants and fungi clearly
suggests that this compound has important roles, our understanding of fungal mannitol …

Since ancient times the olive tree (Olea europaea), an evergreen drought-and moderately
salt-tolerant species, has been cultivated for its oil and fruit in the Mediterranean basin. Olive …

Abiotic stresses such as extremes of temperature and pH, high salinity and drought,
comprise some of the major factors causing extensive losses to crop production worldwide …

Olive oil, which is perhaps the oldest reported crop in history, is the major edible oil of the
Mediterranean countries and an important commodity in other countries such as New …

The role of mannitol as an osmoprotectant, a radical scavenger, a stabilizer of protein and
membrane structure, and protector of photosynthesis under abiotic stress has already been …

Over the last decades several efforts have been carried out to find out the mechanisms of
salt homeostasis in plants and, more recently, to identify genes implicated in salt tolerance …