Seed priming of plants aiding in drought stress tolerance and faster recovery: a review

Abstract Drought stress exposure adversely affects plant growth and productivity. Various seed priming techniques are experimented to mitigate the adverse effect of drought on performance. It is a low-cost sustainable technology that proved be immense potential enhance tolerance increase crop episodes followed by recovery through rain or irrigation help plants recuperate from damages caused stress. The severity drought-associated determines kinetics plants. Under recurrent cycle events, has importance in predicting survival status plant. Many processes like DNA damage repair, de-novo synthesis nucleic acids proteins, osmotic adjustment accumulation osmolytes, activity antioxidant machinery occurring during play significant role Alleviation augmented machinery, improved photosynthetic performance, upregulated expression stress-responsive genes attributed will complement Although beneficial effects well explored, influenced mechanism not been explored. There lacuna field research related for stress, focus this paper.