Tukaram D. Nikam

TL;DR: The physiological, biochemical and molecular signatures of plant responses to salinity are presented, and their use in genetic engineering to improve salt stress tolerance is outlined.

TL;DR: The observed reduced growth rate in calli subjected to stress was coupled with lower catalase and ascorbate peroxidase activities and with a significantly higher superoxide dismutase activity, suggesting that S. portulacastrum cell cultures exhibited higher osmotic adjustment to salt stress.

TL;DR: The highest accumulation of proline and glycine betaine in addition to antioxidant enzyme activities exhibited higher osmotic adjustment and survival of the shoots under sub- or supra-optimal concentrations of NaCl as a penalty to reduced growth.

TL;DR: Leaf-derived root cultures of Datura metel L., established on B5 medium containing 1.2 µ M IAA, were employed to study the influence of biotic and abiotic elicitors on the growth and production of hyoscyamine and scopolamine, the medicinally important tropane alkaloids.

TL;DR: A review analyses research undertaken during last two to three decades in physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology and biotechnology, to unravel the plasticity of the plant tolerance mechanism and reveal molecular mechanisms of stress tolerance.