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Plant Phenolic Compounds for Abiotic Stress Tolerance

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Abiotic stresses (drought, salinity, metal toxicity, heat, cold, extreme light, nutrient deficiency, UV radiation) are causing adverse climatic situations for plants survival. Eventually different physiological and metabolic alterations are induced in plants to loss their potentiality to survive and even cause death. However, plants are well equipped with coordinated and organized defense systems against abiotic stresses. As phytoprotectant, phenolic compounds (PCs) are promising group for inducing tolerance in plants against abiotic stresses. Plants synthesize these potential metabolites to modulate their defense mechanism when exposed to stresses. But their active actions including physiological, and signaling responses in stressed plants still scattered. Antioxidative nature of these compounds is also promising properties for gaining plant tolerance to adverse climatic conditions. The present review is an attempt to coordinate the significant informations about PCs and their contributions to sustain plants. We have summarized and critically evaluated the available literatures of PCs to strengthen the plant tolerance by their antioxidant natures. Finally, there is a vast hope for protecting plants by using this group as phytoprotectant under abiotic stress.

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We acknowledge Dr. Iqbal R. Khan, Department of Botany, School of Chemical and Life Sciences, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India for reviewing of the draft. We also thankful to Md. Rakib Hossain Raihan, Department of Agronomy, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh for his critical reading and formatting of the manuscript.

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Parvin, K., Nahar, K., Mohsin, S.M., Al Mahmud, J., Fujita, M., Hasanuzzaman, M. (2022). Plant Phenolic Compounds for Abiotic Stress Tolerance. In: Hasanuzzaman, M., Ahammed, G.J., Nahar, K. (eds) Managing Plant Production Under Changing Environment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5059-8_8

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