Unravelling the nexus of plant response to non-microbial biostimulants under stress conditions
Contemporary challenges facing the agricultural sector have garnered the interest of all stakeholders on the novel toolset of biostimulants. These products could serve as pivotal actors in the forthcoming transition toward ever more essential sustainable production practices. Regardless of their typ...
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| author | Michele Ciriello Giovanna Marta Fusco Pasqualina Woodrow Petronia Carillo Youssef Rouphael |
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| description | Contemporary challenges facing the agricultural sector have garnered the interest of all stakeholders on the novel toolset of biostimulants. These products could serve as pivotal actors in the forthcoming transition toward ever more essential sustainable production practices. Regardless of their type, biostimulants have the potential to enhance resource efficiency while concurrently fortifying plant resilience to adverse abiotic stress factors. Recent research advances have fundamentally focused on assessing quantifiable parameters, largely overlooking the numerous and intricate biochemical, cellular, and metabolic interactions between plants and biostimulants. It is consequently not surprising that, to date, the mechanisms of action and basic biochemical processes underlying biostimulants’ effects on plants remain enigmatic. Concerning non-microbial biostimulants, which are the subject of in-depth exploration in this review, their inherently diverse nature, comprising formulations containing a plethora of distinct bioactive molecules, significantly complicates the investigation of mechanisms implicated in their mode of action. It is for this reason that we have rather elected to meticulously examine the effects, particularly in suboptimal environments, of a) protein hydrolysates; b) algal extracts; c) humic acids; and d) silicon. The objective of this analysis is to gain a comprehensive understanding of how these substances operate within plants by interpreting both their genetic and metabolic impacts. Comprehensive understanding of these effects could substantially underpin the reliability of these agents and usher to the identification of ever more effective formulations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-41c2d6dc8ed24d1fba948bfb00e773e12024-03-14T06:16:50ZengElsevierPlant Stress2667-064X2024-03-0111100421Unravelling the nexus of plant response to non-microbial biostimulants under stress conditionsMichele Ciriello0Giovanna Marta Fusco1Pasqualina Woodrow2Petronia Carillo3Youssef Rouphael4Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80055 Portici, ItalyDepartment of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 81100 Caserta, ItalyDepartment of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 81100 Caserta, ItalyDepartment of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 81100 Caserta, Italy; Corresponding authors.Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80055 Portici, Italy; Corresponding authors.Contemporary challenges facing the agricultural sector have garnered the interest of all stakeholders on the novel toolset of biostimulants. These products could serve as pivotal actors in the forthcoming transition toward ever more essential sustainable production practices. Regardless of their type, biostimulants have the potential to enhance resource efficiency while concurrently fortifying plant resilience to adverse abiotic stress factors. Recent research advances have fundamentally focused on assessing quantifiable parameters, largely overlooking the numerous and intricate biochemical, cellular, and metabolic interactions between plants and biostimulants. It is consequently not surprising that, to date, the mechanisms of action and basic biochemical processes underlying biostimulants’ effects on plants remain enigmatic. Concerning non-microbial biostimulants, which are the subject of in-depth exploration in this review, their inherently diverse nature, comprising formulations containing a plethora of distinct bioactive molecules, significantly complicates the investigation of mechanisms implicated in their mode of action. It is for this reason that we have rather elected to meticulously examine the effects, particularly in suboptimal environments, of a) protein hydrolysates; b) algal extracts; c) humic acids; and d) silicon. The objective of this analysis is to gain a comprehensive understanding of how these substances operate within plants by interpreting both their genetic and metabolic impacts. Comprehensive understanding of these effects could substantially underpin the reliability of these agents and usher to the identification of ever more effective formulations.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667064X24000757Sustainable agriculturePhysiological and molecular mechanismsSignaling molecules, primary metabolismAbiotic stressPeptides |
| spellingShingle | Michele Ciriello Giovanna Marta Fusco Pasqualina Woodrow Petronia Carillo Youssef Rouphael Unravelling the nexus of plant response to non-microbial biostimulants under stress conditions Plant Stress Sustainable agriculture Physiological and molecular mechanisms Signaling molecules, primary metabolism Abiotic stress Peptides |
| title | Unravelling the nexus of plant response to non-microbial biostimulants under stress conditions |
| title_full | Unravelling the nexus of plant response to non-microbial biostimulants under stress conditions |
| title_fullStr | Unravelling the nexus of plant response to non-microbial biostimulants under stress conditions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Unravelling the nexus of plant response to non-microbial biostimulants under stress conditions |
| title_short | Unravelling the nexus of plant response to non-microbial biostimulants under stress conditions |
| title_sort | unravelling the nexus of plant response to non microbial biostimulants under stress conditions |
| topic | Sustainable agriculture Physiological and molecular mechanisms Signaling molecules, primary metabolism Abiotic stress Peptides |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667064X24000757 |
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