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Hydropriming for Plant Growth and Stress Tolerance

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Priming and Pretreatment of Seeds and Seedlings

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The technique of seed priming has potential in increasing seed longevity during the storage, reducing the time of seedling emergence, improving germination as well as increasing the crop yield, which is reported in various crops. Among the different seed priming techniques, hydropriming is one of the mostly used seed priming techniques to start the germination of seeds without the emergence of radicle. Recent reports suggest that hydropriming of seed has the potential to upregulate plants’ tolerance to multiple abiotic stresses by enhancing seed germination, seedling growth and development, modulating physiological activities and antioxidant response, as well as expression of genes and proteins. But the changes occurred during hydropriming need to be further addressed by plant scientists using molecular and genomic approaches to cope with abiotic stresses. Therefore, in this chapter, we reviewed the recent knowledge on seed hydropriming focusing abiotic stress tolerance in various plant developmental stages along with the antioxidant metabolism and molecular responses of crops.

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  1. Department of Horticulture, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan

    Muhammad Fasih Khalid, Sajjad Hussain, Muhammad Akbar Anjum, Shaghef Ejaz, Mehwish Jan & Sumaira Zafar

  2. Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mirpur, Pakistan

    Maqsood Ahmad

  3. Department of Agronomy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan

    Iqra Zakir & Shakeel Ahmad

  4. Department of Soil Science, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan

    Muhammad Arif Ali & Niaz Ahmad

  5. Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

    Muhammad Junaid Rao

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Khalid, M.F. et al. (2019). Hydropriming for Plant Growth and Stress Tolerance. In: Hasanuzzaman, M., Fotopoulos, V. (eds) Priming and Pretreatment of Seeds and Seedlings. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8625-1_18

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