Showing papers in "Plant Physiology and Biochemistry in 2016"

TL;DR: This review focuses the correlation between sugars and their protective functions in several physiological processes against various abiotic stresses and enlightens the interaction of sugars with several phytohormones and its effect on their biosynthesis under abiotic stress conditions.

TL;DR: Analysis of plant growth promotion and stress alleviation in one month old desi and kabuli chickpea subjected to drought stress for 0, 1, 3 and 7 days and recovery in the presence of a PGPR implies that RA confers drought tolerance in chickpeas by altering various physical, physiological and biochemical parameters.

TL;DR: How the chloroplasts, mitochondria and peroxisomes perceive the external stimuli as pathogen invasion, and trigger resistance response using ROS as signal molecule is described.

TL;DR: The highest grain production and better grain quality in biochar+P treatments might be due to enhanced photosynthesis, water use efficiency, and grain size, which compensated the adversities of high temperature stress.

TL;DR: Results of the present study suggest that B. amyloliquefaciens RWL-1 has the ability to produce GAs and that its inoculation in seedlings can be beneficial to rice plants.

TL;DR: This review examines current progress in the understanding of the effect of silver and titanium dioxide nanoparticles on plant species and addresses the effects of NPs on oxidative stress-related gene expression, genotoxicity, seed germination, and root elongation.

TL;DR: Chlorophyll florescence measurements provide valuable physiological data andradiance of full sunlight and water deficit stress let to the photoinhibition of photosynthesis, as indicated by a reduced quantum yield of PSII, ФPSII, and qP, as well as higher NPQ.

TL;DR: Findings of the research suggest that the transgenic tobacco plants overexpressing OsMTP1 with its hyperaccumulating activity and increased growth rate could be useful for future phytoremediation applications to clean up the Cd-contaminated soil.

TL;DR: To the knowledge, this research demonstrate for the first time that different plants species with a diverse nutritional status can promote the development of a peculiar rhizosphere microbiome, depending on the growth substrate.

TL;DR: Results obtained from this study indicate that PGPB inoculation and SA application enhanced Cr tolerance in maize seedlings by decreasing Cr uptake from root to shoot and reduced oxidative stress by elevating the activities of enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidant.

TL;DR: It is evident that proper supply of S nutrition may be helpful in prevention of As accumulation in aerial parts of plant as well as As induced toxicity.

TL;DR: The results suggest that EBR could alleviate the combined stress-induced harmful effects on photosynthesis and nitrogen metabolism, thus leading to improved plant growth.

TL;DR: The review clearly underlines the high potential of UV-C light in agriculture and advocates for more work to be done to improve its efficiency and also to increase the understanding of the way UV- C light is perceived and influences the physiology of plants.

TL;DR: Data suggest that in CCAP 19/30 glycerol stabilized the photosynthetic apparatus for maximum performance in high light intensities, a role normally attributed to carotenoids.

TL;DR: Results demonstrated that CsWRKY46 from cucumber conferred cold tolerance to transgenic plants and positively regulated the cold signaling pathway in an ABA-dependent manner.

TL;DR: The data reveal that abundant phenolic compounds are detected in root exudation of the BFKC01-inoculated plants, which efficiently facilitate Fe mobility under alkaline conditions and enhances the ability of plants to acquire Fe from soils.

TL;DR: T-aloe displayed biocontrol potential against S. sclerotiorum and soybean plants, the first report of unraveling biocOntrol potential of Trichoderma Spp.

TL;DR: Issues around Li, its role and its essentiality in plants and research directions that may assist in inter-disciplinary studies to evaluate the importance of Li's toxicity are discussed.

TL;DR: The present work suggests that C. didymus exhibited a good accumulation potential for Pb and can tolerate Pb-induced oxidative stress by an effective antioxidant defense mechanism.

TL;DR: Interestingly, As stress showed consistent decrease in phosphate content and expression of phosphate transporters under both high and low phosphate conditions in roots of BRRI 33, suggesting that limiting phosphate transport mainly mediated by OsPHO1;2 directs less As accumulation inBRRI 33.

TL;DR: Investigation of the roles of ROS and the above-mentioned antioxidant genes during the development and ripening of peach fruit indicated that O2(-) and H2O2 acted as potential signaling molecules in the middle stage of fruit development, and only H2 O2 might function as a main toxic molecule to stimulate lipid peroxidation and oxidative stress in the late stage of Fruit ripening.

TL;DR: Application of K(+) resulted in nullifying the negative effect of salinity stress with slightly better response in the susceptible cultivar (TG 37A) and identified Na(+)-exclusion as a key strategy for salt-tolerance in tolerant cv.

TL;DR: The results showed that primed plants of both cultivars showed higher potential to tolerate the post-anthesis drought stress through improved leaf water potential, more chlorophyll, and ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase contents, enhanced photosynthesis, better photoprotection and efficient enzymatic antioxidant system leading to less yield reductions.

TL;DR: It is suggested that flavonoid production and accumulation could be a useful indicator of drought tolerance in native species.

TL;DR: It is suggested that root structural alterations induced by As, such as the particular pattern of dark depositions in the vascular system, could be associated with an adaptation or detoxification mechanism to prevent As translocation to the aboveground tissues.

TL;DR: Both phenotypic investigation and expression analysis demonstrated that the MdmyC2 transgenic Arabidopsis lines were more sensitive to MeJA than the WT control, indicating that the apple MdMYC2 gene plays a vital role in the JA response.

TL;DR: Investigation into the potentiality of seed priming technology with Selenium at lower concentration to ameliorate the As stress on rice seed germination and seedling growth found that seed primed with 0.8 mg Se L-1 was more effective in improving rice seed Germination and Seedling growth, compared to 1.0 mgSe L- 1.

TL;DR: The results indicated that spermidine (Spd) and spermine (Spm) relieve the inhibition caused by drought stress, and putrescine (Put) has the opposite effect.

TL;DR: It is concluded that micro-nutrients can play significant roles in rice aroma synthesis; however, intensive studies at molecular levels are still needed to understand the exact mechanisms of Mn to improve rice aroma formation.

TL;DR: Physiological responses indicated that exogenous melatonin triggered antioxidant activities in both genotypes, while it alleviated cell damage in the T genotype response to cold stress, and high accumulation of metabolites in the cold-tolerant regimes than their cold-sensitive counterparts.