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Molecular Approaches to Potassium Uptake and Cellular Homeostasis in Plants Under Abiotic Stress
Intracellular potassium (K+) homeostasis is an essential requirement for the optimum processing of plant metabolism and overall functioning of plants. It is regulated by K+ ion uptake, efflux, and intracellular a...
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Conventional and Organic Management as Divergent Drivers for Plant Parasitic Nematodes Control
The extent of crop damage due to plant parasitic nematodes (PPN) depends on different factors, and accounts approximately to 15% of agricultural annual losses. Due to the limits of biocidal molecules and phase...
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Nitric Oxide: A Ubiquitous Signal Molecule for Enhancing Plant Tolerance to Salinity Stress and Their Molecular Mechanisms
Salinity is a major constraint of agricultural productivity globally and is recognized to be severely elevated by alterations in the climatic conditions. High salinity levels cause osmotic pressure and ionic i...
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Stress Protective Effect of Rhododendron arboreum Leaves (MEL) on Chromium-Treated Vigna radiata Plants
Oxidative stress due to hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)] in Vigna radiata seedlings, and stress amelioration with treatment of methanol extract of Rhododendron arboreum leaves was observed in the present study by ana...
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Open AccessInfection prevention preparedness and practices for female sterilization services within primary care facilities in Northern India
In 2014, 16 women died following female sterilization operations in Bilaspur, a district in central India. In addition to those 16 deaths, 70 women were hospitalized for critical conditions (Sharma, Lancet 384...
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Open AccessChoice of contraceptive methods in public and private facilities in rural India
Client-centric quality of care (QoC) in family planning (FP) services are imperative for contraceptive method adoption and continuation. Less is known about the choice of contraceptive method in India beyond r...
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Interaction of 24-epibrassinolide and salicylic acid regulates pigment contents, antioxidative defense responses, and gene expression in Brassica juncea L. seedlings under Pb stress
Lead (Pb) is considered one the most hazardous pollutant, and its accumulation in soil and plants is of prime concern. To understand the role of plant hormones in combating heavy metal stress, the present stud...
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Phytoremediation in Waste Management: Hyperaccumulation Diversity and Techniques
Phytoremedial technologies such as phytoextraction, phytosequestration, phytodegradation, phytostabilization, rhizoremediation, evapotranspiration for improving the quality of polluted soil and water offer che...
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Microbial Siderophores in Metal Detoxification and Therapeutics: Recent Prospective and Applications
Siderophores are small molecular weight metal scavengers which are released by plants, plant growth-promoting bacterial strains and fungi into the rhizosphere. These molecules have been widely reported as Fe3+ ca...
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Combined effect of 24-epibrassinolide and salicylic acid mitigates lead (Pb) toxicity by modulating various metabolites in Brassica juncea L. seedlings
The present study demonstrated the combined effect of 24-epibrassinolide and salicylic acid against lead (Pb, 0.25, 0.50, and 0.75 mM) toxicity in Brassica juncea seedlings. Various parameters including water sta...
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ROS Compartmentalization in Plant Cells Under Abiotic Stress Condition
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are generated in various plant organelles under normal conditions and play an important role in different physiological progressions. But under abiotic stress, excessive ROS gener...
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ROS Signaling in Plants Under Heavy Metal Stress
Contamination of soil with toxic heavy metals is a major reason for retarded growth of crops and harmful effects on human health. Cultivation of large number of agricultural crops in contaminated soil is a maj...
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Interaction of Salicylic Acid with Plant Hormones in Plants Under Abiotic Stress
Plants are exposed to a number of abiotic stresses like salinity, heavy metals, temperature, drought, etc. which have adverse effects on their growth and yield. They have well-developed mechanisms which recogn...
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Alleviation of Cadmium and Mercury Stress by Supplementation of Steroid Hormone to Raphanus sativus Seedlings
The present work was undertaken to study the effects of 24-epibrassinolide (24-EBL) on percent germination, growth (root length, shoot length, fresh weight and dry weight), lipid peroxidation, sodium and potas...
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Brassinosteroids: Improving Crop Productivity and Abiotic Stress Tolerance
Brassinosteroids (BRs), a group of phyto-steroidal hormones, play crucial role in a wide spectrum of biochemical, physiological, growth, and developmental processes in plants. Recent molecular and physiologica...
