Yahya Refay

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have discussed the sophisticated adaptation mechanisms and regularity network that improves the water stress tolerance and adaptation in plants, including growth pattern and structural dynamics, reduction in transpiration loss through altering stomatal conductance and distribution, leaf rolling, root-to-shoot ratio dynamics, root length increment, accumulation of compatible solutes, enhancement of transpiration efficiency, osmotic and hormonal regulation, and delayed senescence.

TL;DR: Simulated saline field growing conditions were designed using the subsurface water retention technique and three saline irrigation levels to accurately appraise the suitability of a set of agro-physiological parameters including shoot biomass, grain yield, leaf water relations, gas exchange, chlorophyll fluorescence, and ion accumulation as screening criteria for evaluating wheat salt tolerance under simulated field conditions.

TL;DR: The result of the present study revealed that the combined application of melatonin and B. subtilis might be a feasible approach aiming to reduce the Cr toxicity and its accumulation by wheat and probably in other plants.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the hyperspectral signatures of the canopy in the visible- (VIS), near- (NIR), and shortwave-infrared (SWIR) to estimate and predict the leaf water status, measured here in terms of leaf water potential, relative water content (RWC), and equivalent water thickness (EWT), and grain yield (GY) of wheat cultivars exposed to 1.00, 0.75, and 0.50 ETc treatments.

TL;DR: In this article, the integrative advantageous effects of foliar ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) (60 mg Zn NPs L−1), rice straw biochar (RSB; 8.0 t ha−1, cow-manure biochar(CMB, 8.19, 3.88, and 0.26 mg kg−1 DM), and a combination thereof on sunflowers grown in agricultural land irrigated with polluted wastewater for the long term (≈50 years) were investigated.