During ethanol fermentation, yeast cells are exposed to various stresses that have negative effects on cell growth, cell survival, and fermentation ability. This study, therefore, aims to develop Kluyveromyces marxianus-adapted strains that are multi...
Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of abiotic stresses, including drought, salinity, waterlogging, and temperature extremes, thereby threatening the productivity and quality of Brassica crops. This review synthesizes recent progr...
Cicada flower, scientifically named Cordyceps chanhua, is an important and well-known Chinese cordycipitoid medicinal mushroom. Although most mycoviruses seem to induce latent infections, some mycoviruses cause host effects. However, the effects of m...
Climate change is intensifying drought, salinity, heat, chilling, flooding, and heavy-metal stresses across major fruit-producing regions, threatening yield stability and fruit quality in economically vital, perennial crops such as apple, grapevine,...
Candida tropicalis, a xylose-fermenting yeast, has the potential for converting cellulosic biomass to ethanol. Thermotolerant C. tropicalis X-17, which was isolated in Laos, was subjected to repetitive long-term cultivation with a gradual increase in...
Despite the effectiveness of thermal inactivation processes, Escherichiacoli biofilms continue to be a persistent source of contamination in food processing environments. E. coli strains possessing the locus of heat resistance are a novel food safety...
Cellulose represents the most abundant component of plant biomass on earth; it is degraded by cellulases, specific enzymes produced by microorganisms. However, cellulases of bacterial origin attract more interest due to their natural diversity and ab...
Compatibility of each strain in a multi-strain probiotic (MSP), along with its properties, becomes a strong base for its formulation. In this study, single-strain probiotics (SSPs) and multi-strain probiotics (MSPs) were evaluated in vitro for strain...
The presence of various inhibitory compounds in lignocellulosic hydrolysates poses a significant challenge for bioethanol production, requiring yeasts with exceptional multistress tolerance. This study introduces the novel application and demonstrate...
Plants continuously face multiple abiotic stresses, including drought, salinity, heat, cold, and heavy metal, that challenge cellular homeostasis and threaten global crop productivity. Recent research reveals that these stress responses are not isola...
Millets are important cereal crops cultivated in arid and semiarid regions of the world, particularly Africa and southeast Asia. Climate change has triggered multiple abiotic stresses in plants that are the main causes of crop loss worldwide, reducin...
The present day’s ongoing global warming and climate change adversely affect plants through imposing environmental (abiotic) stresses and disease pressure. The major abiotic factors such as drought, heat, cold, salinity, etc., hamper a plant&rs...
Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is a crop with ornamental and energetic potential, but its propagation is challenged by abiotic stresses such as salinity and water deficit. Ensuring high-quality propagation materials is crucial for healthy plant dev...
Kluyveromyces marxianus is an attractive thermotolerant yeast species for ethanol production because of its ability to utilize various carbon sources as a fermentation substrate. The use of thermotolerant microorganisms enables the performance of hig...
The economic viability of second-generation (2G) bioethanol production depends on the availability of robust, multistress-tolerant yeast strains capable of withstanding harsh industrial conditions. This study investigates animal manure as a novel eco...
Plant growth and development require water, but excessive water hinders growth. Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) is an important oil crop; it is drought-tolerant but sensitive to waterlogging, and its drought tolerance has been extensively studied. Howeve...
One of the most important transformative strategies for better understanding of plant resilient against abiotic and biotic stresses are the integration of omics approaches, encompassing genomics, metabolomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, and phenomi...
Grass endophytes (Epichloë) are important symbiotic microorganisms of perennial ryegrass, playing a vital role in plant resistance against various stresses. This study investigated the effects of grass endophyte on leaf spot disease caused by fu...
Zinc deficiency affects one third of the population worldwide, and vitamin A deficiency is a prevalent public health issue in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-Asia, including Nepal. Crop biofortification is the sustainable solution to these health—...
Evidence for reciprocal links between plant responses to biotic or abiotic stresses and architectural and developmental traits has been raised using approaches based on epidemiology, physiology, or genetics. Winter pea has been selected for years for...
Walnut (Juglans regia L.), an ecologically and economically important species, requires the elucidation of its salt stress response mechanisms for improved salt tolerance breeding. This study elucidates the physiological and molecular mechanisms thro...
Climate change is intensifying the co-occurrence of drought and heat stresses, which substantially constrain global crop yields and threaten food security. Developing climate–resilient crop varieties requires a comprehensive understanding of th...
The intrinsic weakness of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae in xylose utilization limits its application in biological manufacturing using lignocellulosic biomass. Although the natural yeast strain S. cerevisiae YB-2625 exhibits superior inn...
Soil salinization limits the growth of agricultural crops in the world, requiring the use of methods to increase the tolerance of agricultural crops to salinity–alkali stress. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) enhance plant stress adaptation t...
Drought stress is considered a severe threat to crop production. It adversely affects the morpho-physiological, biochemical and molecular functions of the plants, especially in short duration crops like mungbean. In the past few decades, significant...
Extreme climatic conditions often intensify abiotic stress factors (such as drought, salinity, heat stress, ultraviolet radiation, and soil degradation), and are increasingly limiting crop productivity and threatening global food security. Secondary...
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.), the fifth-most important cereal crop globally, serves as a cornerstone crop for food security, forage production, and bioenergy feedstock on arid and semi-arid marginal lands, owing to its high water use efficiency deriv...
Background/Objectives: Soil salinization and alkalization critically limit global agricultural production. This study aimed to investigate the differential response mechanisms of rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) varieties to saline and alkaline stresses...
Soil salinisation is threatening crop sustainability worldwide, mainly due to anthropogenic climate change. Molecular mechanisms developed to counteract salinity have been intensely studied in model plants. Nevertheless, the economically relevant oli...
This study investigated the role of the Zymomonas mobilis recA gene in conferring stress resistance when expressed in Escherichia coli. The recA gene was cloned and expressed in E. coli BL21(DE3), producing a 39 kDa polypeptide. The results of compar...
Amid increasingly complex climate scenarios, abiotic stresses such as drought, extreme temperatures, and soil salinization have emerged as primary bottlenecks limiting the sustainable development of modern agriculture. Because of their unique nanosca...
Heavy metal (HM) contamination in agricultural soils poses a significant threat to soil health and plant productivity. This study investigates the impact of cadmium (Cd) and zinc (Zn) stress on tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum) and explores the mi...
Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon L.) is a warm-season grass species of significant ecological and economic importance. It is widely utilized in turf management and forage production due to its resilience to drought, salt, and other environmental stress...
Chromium (Cr) is a toxic heavy metal discharged into the environment through various anthropogenic sources, which affects soil properties and fertility. Hence, an effective soil restoration strategy is the need of the hour. In this study, a potent Cr...
The prenatal environment critically influences sow and offspring health, with the liver being highly susceptible to heat stress (HS) and vital for antioxidant defense. However, mechanisms underlying HS impacts on early pregnancy and hepatic adaptatio...
Fungal endophytes are microorganisms that inhabit plant tissues without causing disease and emerge as critical mediators of plant stress tolerance, nutrient acquisition, and ecosystem resilience under diverse climate change scenarios. Their unique po...
During the fermentation process, yeast cells face different stresses, and their survival and fermentation efficiency depend on their adaptation to these challenging conditions. Yeast cells must tolerate not only a single stress but also multiple simu...
Heat and drought are major stresses that significantly reduce seed yield of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). In turn, this affects the profitability of the crop in climatic-vulnerable tropical arid regions, which happen to be the poorest and...
Ascophyllum nodosum extracts (ANE) are widely used biostimulants associated with improvements in plant growth, productivity, nutrient acquisition, and abiotic stress tolerance. However, the molecular mechanisms linking extract composition to plant si...
Genome-editing, a recent technological advancement in the field of life sciences, is one of the great examples of techniques used to explore the understanding of the biological phenomenon. Besides having different site-directed nucleases for genome e...
Heavy metal pollution poses a global environmental challenge, with lead (Pb) being particularly concerning due to its persistence and toxicity. This study investigated Xanthium strumarium L. from China’s Yellow River Sanmenxia section through h...
The 2-oxoglutarate and Fe (II)-dependent dioxygenase (2ODD-C) family of 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases potentially participates in the biosynthesis of various metabolites under various abiotic stresses. However, there is scarce information on...
Salinity stress is a barrier to crop production, quality yield, and sustainable agriculture. The current study investigated the plant growth promotion, biochemical and molecular characterization of bacterial strain Enterobacter cloacae PM23 under sal...
Lupinus angustifolius is an important ornamental plant; however, its poor tolerance to alkaline soils limits its cultivation and production. Based on the alkaline-tolerance-related Gshdz4-GsNAC019-GsEXPA8 regulatory module previously screened and ide...
Low temperature and drought are among the most pervasive abiotic stresses limiting crop productivity worldwide, and their frequent co-occurrence or alternation imposes compounded constraints on agricultural sustainability. Increasing evidence support...
Oxidative stress, arising from environmental challenges such as drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, and pathogen attack, significantly impairs rice (Oryza sativa) growth, yield, and grain quality. This review provides a comprehensive synthesis o...
Abiotic stresses often occur simultaneously, and the tolerance mechanisms of plants to combined multiple abiotic stresses remain poorly studied. Extremophytes, adapted to abiotic stressors, might possess stress-adaptive or -responsive regulators that...
(1) Background: Cold stress affects growth and development in plants and is a major environmental factor that decreases productivity. Over the past two decades, the advent of next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies has opened new opportunities...
Considering the cost-effectiveness of bioethanol production at high temperatures, there is an enduring need to find new thermotolerant ethanologenic yeasts. In this study, a total of eighteen thermotolerant yeasts were isolated from various natural f...
Heat shock transcription factors (HSFs) have long been recognized for their essential role in mediating thermotolerance via the activation of heat shock proteins (HSPs). Recent studies, however, have significantly broadened this view, revealing that...
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