Seed priming with brassinolide improves lucerne (Medicago sativa L.) seed germination and seedling growth in relation to physiological changes under salinity stress

By Shengrui Zhang, Jin Hu, Y. Zhang, X. Xie, A. Knapp. 2007

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The Physiological, Biochemical and Molecular Roles of Brassinosteroids and Salicylic Acid in Plant Processes and Salt Tolerance (2010, background): “Exogenous application of BRs can also alter the activities of key antioxidant enzymes, particularly under salt-stress (Zhang et al. , 2007; Shahbaz et al. , 2008).”
Chilling tolerance in Nicotiana tabacum induced by seed priming with putrescine (2011, methodology): “…seeds, germination index (GI ¼ P Gt Tt; where Gt is the number of the germinated seeds in the t day, Tt is time corresponding to Gt in days) and mean germination time (MGT ¼ P Ti NiP Ni ; where Nt is the number of the new germination seeds in times of Ti) were calculated (Zhang et al. 2007).”
Brassinosteroids make plant life easier under abiotic stresses mainly by modulating major components of antioxidant defense system (2015, background): “…al., 2003), grain filling stage (Vardhini, 2012a), anthesis stage (Liu et al., 2006) etc. as foliar spray (Vardhini et al., 2008), seed treatment (Zhang et al., 2007; Kartal et al., 2009), root application (Shang et al., 2006; Song et al., 2006) and even as shot gun approach (Hayat et al.,…”
Drought Stresses on Seed Germination and Early Growth of Maize and Sorghum (2019, background): “SVI = SL × Σ (ni/ti) (5) where, SVI is seedling vigor index, SL is the shoot length, ni is the number of germinated seeds on a given day, and ti is the time in days from the sowing day (Zhang et al., 2007).”