Due to global climate change, abiotic stresses are affecting plant growth, productivity, and
the quality of cultivated crops. Stressful conditions disrupt physiological activities and …

Hexavalent chromium is a highly soluble environmental contaminant. It is a widespread
anthropogenic chromium species that is 100 times more toxic than trivalent chromium …

Chromium (VI) is one of the hazardous heavy metal, heavily discharged into the soil and
severely hampers the plants yield. The TiO 2 NPs was selected due to its potential to …

Plants are very often confronted by different heavy metal (HM) stressors that adversely
impair their growth and productivity. Among HMs, chromium (Cr) is one of the most prevalent …

Chromium (Cr) affects human health if it accumulates in organs to elevated concentrations.
The toxicity risk of Cr in the ecosphere depends upon the dominant Cr species and their …

Jasmonic acid (JA) or methyl jasmonate (MeJA) are master regulators of plant development
and stress response against pathogens and environmental fluctuations. Thus, JA is an …

Increasing crop productivity to feed a growing population, while conserving the natural
resources, is one of the humanity's major challenges that needs to be overcome. To achieve …

Chromium toxicity impairs the productivity of rice crops and raises a major concern
worldwide and thus, it calls for unconventional and sustainable means of crop production. In …

Efficiency of methyl-jasmonate (5 µM Me-J) priming and the foliar application of melatonin
(100 µM ML) in assuaging the deleterious effects of chromium (Cr) toxicity on growth …

Cadmium (Cd) is a potentially hazardous element with substantial biological toxicity,
adversely affecting plant growth and physiological metabolism. Therefore, it is necessary to …