Air pollution has assumed a mammoth proportion in recent times because of causation of health hazards and loss of economic productivity of crop plants. The present study was carried out to assess the impact of cement klin dust pollution on some selected legume crops viz. Arachis hypogaea, Vigna mungo, V. radiate, Dolichos lablab and Cajanus cajan which are grown around the cement industry. Effe...

Transgenic tobacco plants (M51-1) constitutively over-expressing a modified gene for the proline biosynthetic enzyme ∆-pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthetase (P5CSF129A) and the corresponding wild-type plants (WT) were compared during drought or heat stress and under combination of both stresses. The proline content in M51-1 was several times higher than in WT plants. Under optimal conditions, the ...

Drought is the cause of adverse environmental impacts on plant growth and crop yield. In this study, the effects of water deficit on plant molecular and physiological responses were investigated using two cultivars (namely, Sardari and Zarin) of bread wheat selected based on the results of a three-year research. For the purposes of this study, they were grown in plastic pots containing field so...

in this research, effect of vermicompost and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (pgpr) on physiological traits of lemon balm under drought stress condition was investigated in year 2012 at karaj research institute of forest and rangelands. experiment was conducted as split-split plot in a randomized complete block design with three replications. irrigation (normal: irrigated to field capacity...

Abstract Global climate change induced environmental stress such as salinity significantly impact growth and crop productivity. Red amaranth ( Amaranthus tricolor L.) is a vegetable commodity that has high nutritional value, but its productivity will decrease when grown in saline area. Seed priming one of the pre-planting treatment techniques used to increase plant under unfavourable conditions...