Naveed Ul Mushtaq

University of Kashmir · Department of Bioresources

In order to withstand abiotic stress conditions, plants accumulate a wide range of metabolic products such as proline. There exists a co-relation between proline accumulation and salt stress alleviation in plants, suggesting its role in stress mitigation and osmotic adjustments. In this study, we assessed the effect of selenium (Se) under salt (NaC...

Effective remediation solutions are necessary due to the severe health and environmental risks posed by soil pollution caused by cadmium. Phytoremediation, utilizing plants to detoxify Cd-contaminated soil, stands out as a potential method because of its cost-effectiveness, eco-friendliness, and potential for sustainable remediation. The intricacie...

Nanotechnology has emerged as an area constantly expanding, affecting practically every sphere of science and daily life. It offers new product possibilities and provides promising solutions to various problems in areas including pharmaceutics, agri-nanotechnology, electronics, the food industry, environmental science, etc. Nanotechnology is believ...

Salinity stress is a major threat to crop growth and productivity. Millets are stress-tolerant crops that can withstand the environmental constraints. Foxtail millet is widely recognized as a drought and salinity-tolerant crop owing to its efficient ROS scavenging mechanism. Ascorbate peroxidase (APX) is one of the reactive oxygen species (ROS) sca...

Millets are prime underutilized nutraceutical crops that have potential to substitute staple crops. The agro ecological characteristics and nutritional qualities of millets are superior to those of major cereals, which make them efficient crops to meet immediate food security needs. A plant’s normal functioning is dependent on the condition of the...

Soil salinity is one of the major concerns of modern agriculture which poses a threat to food security. This study investigated the mitigating role of Zinc (Zn) on salt (NaCl) stressed foxtail millet, focusing on the modulation of the ascorbate–glutathione (AsA–GSH) pathway. This study evaluated the individual and combinatorial effects of both Zn (...

Salinity is one of the most concerning ecological restrictions influencing plant growth, which poses a devastating threat to global agriculture. Surplus quantities of ROS generated under stress conditions have negative effects on plants’ growth and survival by damaging cellular components, including nucleic acids, lipids, proteins and carbohydrates...

Adequate nutrition for plants involves 14 mineral elements. The elements that are required in larger amounts i.e., macronutrients include nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg) and sulfur (S). In addition to these plants require some trace elements that are required in smaller amounts. These micronutrients include...

Crops are susceptible to a variety of stresses and amongst them salinity of soil is a global agronomic challenge that has a detrimental influence on crop yields, thus posing a severe danger to our food security. Therefore, it becomes imperative to examine how plants respond to salt stress, develop a tolerance that allows them to live through higher...

Salt stress restricts the efficiency of plants grown under such conditions, prompting generous losses of yield, it is a severe environmental impediment that prevents the normal functioning of plants. A broad scope of modifications in development is incited by excess salt. It triggers osmotic, ionic, oxidative stress, and a torrent in the formation...

Plants being sessile are always exposed to various environmental stresses, and to overcome these stresses, modifications at the epigenetic level can prove vital for their long-term survival. Epigenomics refers to the large-scale study of epigenetic marks on the genome, which include covalent modifications of histone tails (acetylation, methylation,...

Plants being sessile are always exposed to various environmental stresses, and to overcome these stresses, modifications at the epigenetic level can prove vital for their long-term survival. Epigenomics refers to the large-scale study of epigenetic marks on the genome, which include covalent modifications of histone tails (acetylation, methylation,...

Both biotic and abiotic stresses cause a great harm to plants by hampering growth and reducing yield. Various unfavorable conditions such as drought and salinization lead to an increased production of free radicals (●OH, O2●−, ●NO) and imbalances in cellular redox homeostasis. This imbalance results in oxidative stress and subsequent stress respons...

In alarming condition (stressful), the metabolic imbalances cause an excess production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and lead to oxidative imbalances. Every plant’s first line of defense amid stress is the ROS generation. ROS serve as messengers in initiating plant defense signaling. Large quantities of ROS have negative impacts on plants surviv...

Abiotic stresses such as drought, heat, cold, nutrient deficiency, excess salt and hazardous metals can hamper plantgrowth and development. Intensive agriculture of only a few major staple food crops that are sensitive and intolerant to environmental stresses has led to an agrarian crisis. On the other hand, nutritionally rich, gluten free and stre...

Abiotic stress is the major threat confronted by modern-day agriculture. Salinity is one of the major abiotic stresses that influence geographical distribution, survival, and productivity of various crops across the globe. Plants perceive salt stress cues and communicate specific signals, which lead to the initiation of defence response against it....

Millets hold an immense assurance for food safety and nourishment amid ever-rising agricultural expenses and climate alterations. They are healthful, have supplementary wellbeing profit and need remarkably fewer effort overheads for crop growing. These characters draw attention to millets as a plant of preference for the humankind in the course of...