Engineering drought and salinity tolerance traits in crops through CRISPR-mediated genome editing: Targets, tools, challenges, and perspectives

RM Shelake, US Kadam, R Kumar, D Pramanik… - Plant …, 2022 - cell.com
Prolonged periods of drought triggered by climate change hamper plant growth and cause
substantial agricultural yield losses every year. In addition to drought, salinity is one of the …

Glutathione metabolism in plants under stress: beyond reactive oxygen species detoxification

S Dorion, JC Ouellet, J Rivoal - Metabolites, 2021 - mdpi.com
Glutathione is an essential metabolite for plant life best known for its role in the control of
reactive oxygen species (ROS). Glutathione is also involved in the detoxification of …

Coordinated actions of glyoxalase and antioxidant defense systems in conferring abiotic stress tolerance in plants

M Hasanuzzaman, K Nahar, MS Hossain… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Being sessile organisms, plants are frequently exposed to various environmental stresses
that cause several physiological disorders and even death. Oxidative stress is one of the …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of heavy metals on germination of seeds

SK Sethy, S Ghosh - Journal of natural science, biology, and …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
With the expansion of the world population, the environmental pollution and toxicity by
chemicals raises concern. Rapid industrialization and urbanization processes has led to the …

Methylglyoxal: an emerging signaling molecule in plant abiotic stress responses and tolerance

TS Hoque, MA Hossain, MG Mostofa… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The oxygenated short aldehyde methylglyoxal (MG) is produced in plants as a by-product of
a number of metabolic reactions, including elimination of phosphate groups from glycolysis …

Microbial technologies for heavy metal remediation: effect of process conditions and current practices

S Verma, P Bhatt, A Verma, H Mudila, P Prasher… - Clean Technologies and …, 2021 - Springer
Heavy metal (HM) contamination is a persisting environmental problem in many countries.
The major sources of soil contamination due to heavy metals (HMs) include pesticides …

Hydrogen Sulfide Regulates Salt Tolerance in Rice by Maintaining Na+/K+ Balance, Mineral Homeostasis and Oxidative Metabolism Under Excessive Salt Stress

MG Mostofa, D Saegusa, M Fujita… - Frontiers in plant …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Being a salt sensitive crop, rice growth and development are frequently affected by soil
salinity. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) has been recently explored as an important priming agent …

OsNSUN2-mediated 5-methylcytosine mRNA modification enhances rice adaptation to high temperature

Y Tang, CC Gao, Y Gao, Y Yang, B Shi, JL Yu, C Lyu… - Developmental cell, 2020 - cell.com
Extreme weather events can cause heat stress that decreases crop production. Recent
studies have demonstrated that protein degradation and rRNA homeostasis as well as …

Essentiality of nickel in plants: a role in plant stresses

CC Fabiano, T Tezotto, JL Favarin… - Frontiers in plant …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The element Ni is considered an essential plant micronutrient because it acts as an activator
of the enzyme urease. Recent studies have shown that Ni may activate an isoform of …

Methylglyoxal–a signaling molecule in plant abiotic stress responses

MG Mostofa, A Ghosh, ZG Li, MN Siddiqui… - Free Radical Biology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abiotic stresses are the most common harmful factors, adversely affecting all aspects of
plants' life. Plants have to elicit appropriate responses against multifaceted effects of abiotic …