Rice is one of the most important food crops in the world, and staple for more than half of the
global population. Looming water crisis, water-intensive nature of rice cultivation and …

Micronutrients are vital for plant growth and human health. Soil and foliar applications are
the most prevalent methods of micronutrient addition but the cost involved and difficulty in …

Since the publication of the third edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress,
continuous discoveries in the fields of plant and crop environmental stresses and their …

Abstract Background Zinc (Zn) deficiency is one of the most important micronutrient
disorders affecting human health. Wheat is the staple food for 35% of the world's population …

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 …

Zinc (Zn) deficiency hampers the crop yield, nutritional quality and ultimately the human
health. Plant growth-promoting endophyte transform unavailable Zn to available form for …

The study, consisting of two independent experiments, was conducted to evaluate the role of
seed priming with ascorbic acid (AsA) in drought resistance of wheat. In the first experiment …

Iron deficiency anaemia is a major challenge among consumers in develo** countries.
Given the deficiency of iron in the diet, there is an urgent need to devise a strategy for …

Seed priming is a commercially successful practice, but reduced longevity of primed seeds
during storage may limit its application. We established a series of experiments on rice to …

Water deficit is a serious environmental stress and the major constraint to rice productivity.
Losses in rice yield due to water shortage probably exceed losses from all other causes …