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M. Naeem
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Plant Anatomy/Development
Plant Physiology
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Exogenous Strigolactone (GR24) Positively Regulates Growth, Photosynthesis, and Improves Glandular Trichome Attributes for Enhanced Artemisinin Production in Artemisia annua
Artemisia annua is a medicinal plant particularly known for the production of a sesquiterpene lactone artemisinin; a specialty metabolite known for its efficacy in the treatment of malaria by killing different st...
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Cellular Responses, Osmotic Adjustments, and Role of Osmolytes in Providing Salt Stress Resilience in Higher Plants: Polyamines and Nitric Oxide Crosstalk
Salinity stress is a chief abiotic hindrance affecting crop productivity and yield particularly in arid and semi-arid regions across the globe. Plants have evolved a network of physiological and molecular mec...
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Mechanistic Insights into Strigolactone Biosynthesis, Signaling, and Regulation During Plant Growth and Development
Strigolactones (SLs) constitute a group of carotenoid-derived phytohormones with butenolide moieties. These hormones are involved in various functions, including regulation of secondary growth, shoot branching...
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Triacontanol Protects Mentha arvensis L. from Nickel-Instigated Repercussions by Escalating Antioxidant Machinery, Photosynthetic Efficiency and Maintaining Leaf Ultrastructure and Root Morphology
Nickel (Ni), an essential micronutrient and a prime component of the plant enzyme urease, has an indispensable role in plants. Triacontanol (TRIA) is a conspicuous plant growth regulator in agriculture, which ...
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Intimidating Effects of Heavy Metals on Mentha Species and Their Mitigation Using Scientific Approaches
Scanty literature is available on the effect of various heavy metals (HMs) on Mentha species and their mitigation using different emerging trends. Kee** the prevailing problem regarding the contamination of HMs...
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Nutrient Uptake, Removal, and Cycling in Eucalyptus Species
Eucalyptus (family Myrtaceae), represented by over 900 species distributed throughout the world, are well known for their essential oils. Nutrient supply is treated as a dynamic variable which is related to rela...
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Nutrients Requirement of Medicinal Plants of Dhofar Region of Oman
Dhofar region of Oman has unique position in Arabic peninsula due to Kharif (monsoon) season. During the season, the area receives sufficient water required for development of various type of vegetation includ...
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Regulatory Role of Mineral Nutrients in Nurturing of Medicinal Legumes Under Salt Stress
Medicinal legumes (Fabaceae family) bear primary and secondary metabolites and other important compounds such as nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, and other useful products. The medicinal legumes are potential ...
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Adverse Effects of Abiotic Stresses on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants and Their Alleviation by Calcium
Plants, because of their sessile nature, are the foremost organisms which always face several environmental stresses such as extreme temperatures, drought, water logging, salinity, and heavy metals, which seve...
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Role of Salicylic Acid in Promoting Salt Stress Tolerance and Enhanced Artemisinin Production in Artemisia annua L.
In the present investigation, the role of salicylic acid (SA) in inducing salinity tolerance was studied in Artemisia annua L., which is a major source of the antimalarial drug artemisinin. SA, when applied at 1....
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Triacontanol-mediated regulation of growth and other physiological attributes, active constituents and yield of Mentha arvensis L.
Triacontanol (TRIA) has been realized as a potent plant growth promoting substance for a number of agricultural and horticultural crops. Out of a large number of essential oil bearing plants, mint (Mentha arvensi...
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Salicylic acid mitigates salinity stress by improving antioxidant defence system and enhances vincristine and vinblastine alkaloids production in periwinkle [Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don]
A pot experiment was conducted to find out whether the foliar spray of salicylic acid (SA) could successfully ameliorate the adverse effects of salinity stress on periwinkle. Thirty-day-old plants were supplie...
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Calcium chloride and gibberellic acid protect linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) from NaCl stress by inducing antioxidative defence system and osmoprotectant accumulation
Salinity stress affects many metabolic facets of plants and induces anatomical and morphological changes resulting in reduced growth and productivity. To overcome the damaging effects of salinity, different st...
