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An Insight into the Role of Plant Growth Regulators in Stimulating Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Some Medicinally Important Plants

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Abiotic stress occur when the environmental condition changes abundant to disturb the cellular functions. The most common stresses that frequently occur are salinity (in the form of NaCl), drought, heavy metals, flooding, and extreme temperature and heat. These major environmental stresses reportedly affect 90% of the world’s total arable land. Abiotic stress generally affects plant growth and development, and the effects may be general or non-specific such as reduction in growth, severely affected photosynthetic machinery, and excess of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which can lead to cell death. It has long been known that medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) have medicinal properties as they bear biologically active chemical substances such as saponins, tannins, essential oils, flavonoids, alkaloids, and other important chemical compounds. The quality and amount of these chemical metabolites in plants are influenced by a number of factors, mainly, among them, environmental stresses. Various morphological, physiological, and metabolic responses (negative or positive) have been noticed in various medicinal plants under different abiotic stresses. Nonetheless, induction in the level of different secondary metabolites in numerous medicinal plants under stress conditions has been reported. In the recent years, an ongoing and widely debated aspect in abiotic stress response is the regulatory role of plant growth regulators (PGRs). These are chemical substances that generally function as chemical messengers for intracellular communication and profoundly influence the growth and differentiation in plants. This chapter provided the deep insights of medicinal plants under different abiotic stress and role of different PGRs in abiotic stress tolerance mechanisms.

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Choudhary, S. et al. (2021). An Insight into the Role of Plant Growth Regulators in Stimulating Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Some Medicinally Important Plants. In: Aftab, T., Hakeem, K.R. (eds) Plant Growth Regulators. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61153-8_3

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