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Plant Sciences
Firdos Kosar, Khalid S. Alshallash, Nudrat Aisha Akram, Muhammad Sadiq, Muhammad Ashraf, Dalal Hussien M. Alkhalifah, Arafat Abdel Hamed Abdel Latef, Amr Elkelish
Summary: The exogenous application of trehalose can improve the growth, antioxidant capacity, and yield of sunflower plants under drought stress conditions.
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Manoj Kumar, Manish Kumar Patel, Navin Kumar, Atal Bihari Bajpai, Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Summary: Metabolic regulation plays a crucial role in helping plants maintain cell osmotic potential under drought stress. Understanding plant drought tolerance is essential for ensuring food security under harsh climatic conditions. Plant metabolites and metabolic genes are key factors in drought tolerance, offering potential strategies to improve plant survival in drought conditions.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2021)
Review
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Mariana Zuleima Perez-Gonzalez, Maria Adelina Jimenez-Arellanes
Summary: The consumption of medicinal plants has increased in recent decades, leading to overexploitation and deforestation, endangering plant species. Plant biotechnology offers a solution by increasing compound yield, reducing costs, and aiding in the protection of endangered medicinal plants with important biological activity.
APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Kamal Thakur, Chanchal Kumari, Ashwini Zadokar, Parul Sharma, Rajnish Sharma
Summary: This article discusses the stress adaptation mechanisms of medicinal plants under UV radiation and analyzes and summarizes the related genes, proteins, and signaling networks.
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
(2023)
Review
Plant Sciences
Zhuo Wang, Thomas Efferth, Xin Hua, Xin-An Zhang
Summary: This paper provides a comprehensive systematic review of the effects of medicinal plant extracts and natural compounds against knee osteoarthritis (KOA). The results show that these substances have a positive impact on fighting KOA and can affect diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers of the disease. Furthermore, they influence several molecular pathways involved in KOA.
Review
Plant Sciences
YanYan Zhao, Annalisa Cartabia, Ismahen Lalaymia, Stephane Declerck
Summary: Medicinal plants can increase the quantity and quality of secondary metabolites by inoculating them with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), which can directly increase plant biomass and indirectly stimulate the synthesis of secondary metabolites. Different cultivation methods are also compatible with AMF and can affect the production of secondary metabolites.
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Xiaoxuan Wu, Yu Yang, Huiming Zhang
Summary: Medicinal plants produce secondary metabolites that are influenced by environmental factors and plant-associated microbiomes. Recent studies have shown that exploiting microbial capacities can enhance the production of pharmacological metabolites in medicinal plants. This review summarizes these studies and discusses the potential of microbial applications for metabolic fortification in medicinal plants.
COMPUTATIONAL AND STRUCTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
(2023)
Review
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Mohammad Miransari, Saman Mahdavi, Donald Smith
Summary: Medicinal plants are of global interest due to their health properties, with research needed on methods affecting their growth and biochemical properties under stress. Salinity stress can decrease plant growth but increase production of secondary metabolites, impacting medicinal properties. Biological methods, like plant growth regulators and soil microbes, may affect medicinal plant physiology and metabolite production under salt stress, making the use of modern omics important for identifying new bioactive compounds.
APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Agronomy
Yusef Kheyruri, Ahmad Sharafati, Aminreza Neshat
Summary: This study examines the impact of the most severe drought in Iran's history on crop harvests and prices, as well as the socioeconomic effects on producers, consumers, and public prosperity. The results show that the drought had significant negative effects on crop yields, particularly for rainfed wheat, and led to price increases, especially for grains. The drought had adverse effects on public prosperity, with the greatest reduction seen in barley in western regions. Northwestern and western Iran are important farming areas, and agricultural droughts in these regions can have significant socioeconomic consequences.
AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Shike Zhang, Chunmei He, Long Wei, Shuguang Jian, Nan Liu
Summary: Casuarina equisetifolia is a drought and salt tolerant tree that can grow in barren environments. It is commonly used to reduce wind damage, prevent sand erosion, and assist in plant community establishment in tropical and subtropical coastal zones. Through transcriptomic and metabolic analyses, it was found that C. equisetifolia responds to drought by regulating plant hormone signal transduction and the biosynthesis of jasmonic acid, flavonoids, and phenylpropanoids. These findings provide new insights into drought tolerance mechanisms and coastal vegetation management.
Article
Plant Sciences
Imane Chamkhi, Taoufiq Benali, Tarik Aanniz, Naoual El Menyiy, Fatima-Ezzahrae Guaouguaou, Nasreddine El Omari, Mohamed El-Shazly, Gokhan Zengin, Abdelhakim Bouyahya
Summary: Plants and microbes interact through various chemical signaling pathways, with microbes secreting elicitors that trigger biological responses in plants via specific receptors. These elicitor molecules induce changes in phenotype and stimulate the synthesis of secondary metabolites in plants. Different microorganisms release elicitors that activate signaling pathways involved in the synthesis of bioactive compounds in plants, which can be explored for drug discovery purposes.
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
(2021)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Avantika Pandey, Madhoolika Agrawal, Shashi Bhushan Agrawal
Summary: Despite a rich history and economic importance, the potential of medicinal plants has not been fully explored under different abiotic stress conditions. The penetration of UV-B radiation and contamination of heavy metals have a significant impact on the defense-related and pharmaceutically important secondary metabolites of medicinal plants, which can affect both the quality and quantity of these metabolites. Understanding the effects of UV-B and heavy metal contamination on the biosynthesis and accumulation of secondary metabolites is important for the comprehensive study of medicinal plants.
Review
Engineering, Chemical
Yaxuan Wang, Zhaogao Li, Mengwei Xu, Zhihao Xiao, Chaobo Liu, Bing Du, Delin Xu, Lin Li
Summary: Signaling molecules play a crucial role in connecting endophytes and host plants. They are involved in the recognition of endophytes, regulation of host plant growth and development, and synthesis of secondary metabolites. This review provides an overview of the types and characteristics of signaling molecules in medicinal plants, as well as the intracellular conduction and multi-molecular crosstalk of signaling molecules during interactions between endophytic bacteria and medicinal plants. It also summarizes the molecular mechanisms of signal molecules in the accumulation and regulation of medical metabolites. This work serves as a reference for utilizing endophytic bacteria and medicinal plants to synthesize pharmaceutical active ingredients in a bioreactor.
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Mehtab Muhammad Aslam, Muhammad Waseem, Bello Hassan Jakada, Eyalira Jacob Okal, Zuliang Lei, Hafiz Sohaib Ahmad Saqib, Wei Yuan, Weifeng Xu, Qian Zhang
Summary: Drought is a major constraint to rain-fed agricultural production, and understanding the mechanisms of ABA-mediated drought responses in plants is critical for ensuring crop yield and global food security. This review highlights the regulation of ABA perception, transcriptional levels of ABA- and drought-related genes, and metabolic pathways to alter drought stress responses in plants.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Juan Nicolas-Espinosa, Paula Garcia-Ibanez, Alvaro Lopez-Zaplana, Lucia Yepes-Molina, Lorena Albaladejo-Marico, Micaela Carvajal
Summary: Phenolic compounds and glucosinolates have important functions in plant resistance to abiotic stress, such as drought, salinity, high temperature, metals toxicity, and mineral deficiency or excess. The review also discusses their relationship with water uptake and transport mediated through aquaporins. The increase in phenolic compounds and glucosinolate synthesis is related to primary responses to abiotic stress and induction of resistance.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2023)