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Physiological Interventions of Antioxidants in Crop Plants Under Multiple Abiotic Stresses

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Climatic changes, industrialization, and global warming pose serious threats to the environment and agriculture. Plants are continuously exposed to multiple stresses among which salinity is a big issue that needs to be addressed seriously. Surely, salinity led to the dwindled crop production and creates serious consequences including less availability of food for humans and animals. Under stress conditions, reactive oxygen species (ROS) are produced, which damage the molecular system of the cell. Therefore, plants adapted different strategies to cope with such stress-induced toxicity. In this respect, the finding of mechanisms for salinity stress tolerance in plants is of great interest. The plant cells produce antioxidants to manage the stresses. Antioxidants produced endogenously scavenge ROS to ameliorate stresses. Transferring the concept from nature, scientists have reported that exogenous application of antioxidants could be a cost-effective solution to counteract different types of plant stresses. The present chapter is focused on the role of antioxidants, that is, ellagic acid, ascorbic acid, salicylic acid, tocopherols, anthocyanins, carotenoids, and brassinosteroids (nonenzymatic) and catalases (CAT), peroxidases (POXs), and superoxide dismutases (SODs) (enzymatic), for increased crop production under stress conditions and discusses the different mechanistic approaches to capture ROS in plants.

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Khan, A., Hussain, M.A., Nawaz, H., Muhammad, G., Lang, I., Ashraf, U. (2023). Physiological Interventions of Antioxidants in Crop Plants Under Multiple Abiotic Stresses. In: Prakash, C.S., Fiaz, S., Nadeem, M.A., Baloch, F.S., Qayyum, A. (eds) Sustainable Agriculture in the Era of the OMICs Revolution. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15568-0_20

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