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Wound to survive: mechanical damage suppresses aphid performance on brassica
Plants exhibit a remarkable capacity to discern between self-inflicted damage, herbivore attacks, and mechanical harm through pattern recognition, detecting specific signals associated with each type of damage...
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Open AccessChitosan oligomers (COS) trigger a coordinated biochemical response of lemongrass (Cymbopogon flexuosus) plants to palliate salinity-induced oxidative stress
Plant susceptibility to salt depends on several factors from its genetic makeup to modifiable physiological and biochemical status. We used lemongrass (Cymbopogon flexuosus) plants as a relevant medicinal and aro...
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Irradiated chitosan (ICH): an alternative tool to increase essential oil content in lemongrass (Cymbopogon flexuosus)
Irradiated chitosan boosts a myriad of physiological processes, including photosynthetic efficiencies, gas-exchange, N-metabolism, osmoprotection, antioxidant metabolism, and EO biosynthesis in lemongrass and ...
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Biosynthesis of Lemongrass Essential Oil and the Underlying Mechanism for Its Insecticidal Activity
Lemongrass (Cymbopogon flexuosus) is an aromatic perennial grass grown extensively for its essential oil. Lemongrass oil is chiefly a mixture of various cyclic and acyclic bioactive monoterpenes. We reviewed lemo...
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Natural Polysaccharides: Novel Plant Growth Regulators
The recent decades have marked the applications of numerous growth promoters to meet the demands of the ever-growing population. However, their toxicity and side effects have always been a concern. This led th...
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Exogenous Gibberellic Acid Supplementation Renders Growth and Yield Protection Against Salinity Induced Oxidative Damage Through Upregulating Antioxidant Metabolism in Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graceum L.)
Gibberellic acid (GA) is a well-established group of phytohormones with growth eliciting properties. Considering the substantial damage by salt stress, we investigated whether foliar sprays of 10−6 M GA3 could re...
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Various Mitigation Approaches Applied to Confer Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.): A Review
Trigonella foenum graecum L. contains several nutritionally and pharmaceutically important bioactive constituents particularly trigonelline and diosgenin and imparts immense economic value to the plant making it ...
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Potential Uses of Bioactive Compounds of Medicinal Plants and Their Mode of Action in Several Human Diseases
Herbal medicines are the prime source of medical care for a great proportion of the population of the develo** world. The control of human diseases by the use of plant products has several advantages besides...
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An Insight into the Role of Plant Growth Regulators in Stimulating Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Some Medicinally Important Plants
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 metal...
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Impact of Long-Term Copper Exposure on Growth, Photosynthesis, Antioxidant Defence System and Artemisinin Biosynthesis in Soil-Grown Artemisia annua Genotypes
The effects of copper (Cu) exposure on growth and physiological characteristics of three genotypes (CN-12, Cim-Sanjeevani and Cim-Arogya) of Artemisia annua L. were elucidated. The plants were grown under natural...
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HBr-Reactive acids ofMalva sylvestris seed oil
Malva sylvestris seed oil contained 5.6% sterculic, 11.0% malvalic, 1.6% vernolic, 15.6% lauric, 6.6% myristic, 26.6% palmitic, 5.6% palmitoleic, a trace of stearic, 23.0% oleic and 4.0% linoleic...
