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Beneficial Effects of Hemin on Antioxidative Capacity and Anatomical Characters of NaCl-Stressed Rice Plants
Salt stress has become one of the most widespread abiotic stresses globally, negatively affecting crop growth, development, and yield. Rice is an important economic crop affected by salt stress. This study use...
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5-Aminolevulinic acid regulates the grain morphology, carbohydrate and hormone contents, increasing grain yield of maize in field land
5-aminolaevulinic acid (ALA), being a plant growth promoter, effectively improves plant growth and development. However, relevant reports are deficient on how ALA regulates the maize grain yield. In this study...
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Open AccessPhotosynthetic mechanisms underlying NaCl-induced salinity tolerance in rice (Oryza sativa)
Salinity stress is an environmental constraint that normally develops concurrently under field conditions, resulting in drastic limitation of rice plant growth and grain productivity. The objective of this stu...
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Open AccessTranscriptomic and metabolomic analyses reveal that ABA increases the salt tolerance of rice significantly correlated with jasmonic acid biosynthesis and flavonoid biosynthesis
Abscisic acid (ABA) has been shown to mitigate the deleterious effects of abiotic stresses and to regulate plant growth and development. Salinity is one of the important abiotic stresses affecting plant cell m...
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Open AccessTranscriptomics and physiology reveal the mechanism of potassium indole-3-butyrate (IBAK) mediating rice resistance to salt stress
IBAK, as a plant growth regulator, has broad application prospects in improving crop resistance to abiotic stress.
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Open AccessEffect of plant growth regulators DA-6 and COS on drought tolerance of pineapple through bromelain and oxidative stress
Due to global warming, drought climates frequently occur on land, and despite being drought resistant, pineapples are still subjected to varying degrees of drought stress. Plant growth regulators can regulate ...
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Open AccessExogenous Hemin alleviates NaCl stress by promoting photosynthesis and carbon metabolism in rice seedlings
It is widely known that salt stress restricts rice growth and productivity severely. However, little information is available regarding the stage of rice seedlings subjected to the Heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) indu...
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Plant Growth Regulators Enhance Saline–Alkali Tolerance by Upregulating the Levels of Antioxidants and Osmolytes in Soybean Seedlings
Soil salinization has become a global problem and seriously endangers crop growth and yield improvement. In the present study, soybean (Hefeng 50) seedlings were used as test materials to study the mitigation ...
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Open AccessU.S. winter wheat yield loss attributed to compound hot-dry-windy events
Climate extremes cause significant winter wheat yield loss and can cause much greater impacts than single extremes in isolation when multiple extremes occur simultaneously. Here we show that compound hot-dry-w...
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Effects of Uniconazole on Leaves Photosynthesis, Root Distribution and Yield of Mung Bean (Vigna radiata)
Uniconazole was a plant growth retardant with effect of regulating plant growth and development, however, there were very few studies on its application to mung bean. In this study, the leaves of mung bean wer...
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Studies on the Physiological Mechanism of Brassinolide to Improve the Resistance of Rice Seedlings to NaCl Stress
In order to explore the effects of NaCl stress on the growth and physiological characteristics of rice seedlings and the mitigation effects of brassinolide (BR), a pot experiment was conducted with rice cultiv...
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Open AccessPhysiological mechanisms of ABA-induced salinity tolerance in leaves and roots of rice
Abscisic acid (ABA) plays a crucial role in response to abiotic stress as important small molecules in regulating metabolism. This study aimed to evaluate the ability of foliar spraying ABA to regulate growth ...
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Open AccessTranscriptomic analysis of Vigna radiata in response to chilling stress and uniconazole application
Chilling injury of mung bean (Vigna radiata (L.)) during the blooming and podding stages is a major agricultural threat in Northeast China. Uniconazole (UNZ) can alleviate water deficit stress in soybean and wate...
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Open AccessPhysiological and transcriptome analyses for assessing the effects of exogenous uniconazole on drought tolerance in hemp (Cannabis sativa L.)
Uniconazole (S-(+)-uniconazole), a plant growth retardant, exerts key roles in modulating growth and development and increasing abiotic stress tolerance in plants. However, the underlying mechanisms by which u...
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Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of 3,3-Dimethyl-1-(1H-1,2,4-triazole-1-yl)butan-2-One Derivatives as Plant Growth Regulators
We synthesized nine novel triazole-compounds and investigated their plant growth regulatory activity. Compound CGR3, with methoxyacyl on 3-position of triazole ring, showed better activity, promoting root length ...
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Open AccessHigh-resolution DNA methylome reveals that demethylation enhances adaptability to continuous crop** comprehensive stress in soybean
Continuous crop** stress involves such factors as biological barriers, allelopathic autotoxicity, deterioration of soil physicochemical properties, and soil fertility imbalance and is regarded as a kind of c...
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Genome-wide transcriptome profiling reveals the mechanism of the effects of uniconazole on root development in Glycine Max
Uniconazole, a plant growth retardant, possesses the ability to improve quality and increase tolerance of plant. However, it is known little about the effects of uniconazole on root. In this study, uniconazole...
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The effects of gibberellins and mepiquat chloride on nitrogenase activity in Bradyrhizobium japonicum
Application of plant growth regulators (PGRs) to soybean plants is known to induce changes in nitrogenase activity in root nodules, and this led us to hypothesize that PGRs would affect nitrogenase activity in...
