Seed Priming with Ascorbic Acid Improves Drought Resistance of Wheat

By Muhammad Farooq, Muhammad Irfan, T. Aziz, Ibrar Ahmad, S. Cheema. 2013

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Seed Priming: New Comprehensive Approaches for an Old Empirical Technique (2016, background): “Application of ascorbic acid as a seed priming agent induced drought and salt resistance of wheat [66, 67].”
Drought Stress Impacts on Plants and Different Approaches to Alleviate Its Adverse Effects (2021, background): “Osmopriming Wheat Maintains RWC, enhances proline accumulation, chlorophyll contents and emergence of leaf [140] CaCl 2 Osmopriming LPO reduction, osmolyte accumulation, increment in LA, RWC and grain yield [141] RWC: Relative water contents, LPO: Lipid peroxidation, LA: Leaf area, SNP: sodium…”
Stomata and Xylem Vessels Traits Improved by Melatonin Application Contribute to Enhancing Salt Tolerance and Fatty Acid Composition of Brassica napus L. Plants (2020, background): “The volume of the priming solution was five times the weight of the seeds [47].”
Foliar application of ascorbate enhances the physiological and biochemical attributes of maize (Zea mays L.) cultivars under drought stress (2015, background): “Drought stress negatively affected photosynthetic pigments in many plant species (Ali et al. 2008; Zlatev & Lidon 2012; Farooq et al. 2013; Hassan et al. 2013).”