Publications by authors named "Stella Gedeon"
Under the era of climate change, plants are forced to survive under increasingly adverse conditions. Application of biostimulants in plants is shown to mitigate the deleterious effects of abiotic stresses including salinity, enhancing plant tolerance and performance. The present study focuses on the effects of five biostimulants based on biocompost and biofertilizer compounds that have been applied to tomato plants grown in the presence (salt-stressed plants) or absence of salt stress (control plants).
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- Chloroplasts produce signals that help plants manage stress, and transplastomic tobacco plants were modified to express certain genes that promote stress tolerance and detoxification.
- The study tested these modified plants under various stress conditions like drought, high salinity, and exposure to herbicides, showing they performed better than wild-type plants in handling these stresses.
- Analysis revealed that the transplastomic plants not only managed to maintain better metabolic stability and enhance their stress tolerance, but they also showed a unique acclimation state, activating specific stress-related genes under different conditions.