ABDUL SAMAD¹, KANVAL SHAUKAT^1,*, MAHMOOD-UR-REHMAN ANSARI², MEREEN NIZAR¹, NOREEN ZAHRA³, AMBREEN NAZ⁴, HAFIZ MUHAMMAD WALEED IQBAL⁵, ALI RAZA⁶, VLADAN PESIC⁷, IVICA DJALOVIC⁸

BIOCELL, Vol.47, No.3, pp. 523-532, 2023, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2023.023704 - 03 January 2023

Abstract Salinity is one of the major abiotic factors that limit the growth and productivity of plants. Foliar application of plant growth regulators (PGRs) may help plants ameliorate the negative impacts of salinity. Thus, a field experiment was conducted at the Botanical Garden University of Balochistan, Quetta, to explore the potential role of PGRs, i.e., moringa leaf extract (MLE; 10%), proline (PRO; 1 µM), salicylic acid (SA; 250 µM), and thiourea (TU; 10 mM) in ameliorating the impacts of salinity (120 mM) on Plantago ovata, an important medicinal plant. Salinity hampered plant photosynthetic pigments and metabolites but… More >

Min Fan^1,2,3*, Qiaoling Hu⁴

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.6, No.5, pp. 457-463, 2018, DOI:10.7569/JRM.2017.634178

Abstract The absorption behavior of chitosan in alkaline solution by freeze-blasting was studied. The influence of alkaline type, concentration, and small molecules was investigated, as well as the different roles of LiOH and NaOH in the absorption. Chitosan reached its maximum absorption rate when LiOH concentration was 4.8 wt% and NaOH 4.0 wt%, respectively. Chitosan showed better absorption capacity in LiOH solution. Urea could improve the absorption when its concentration was more than or equal to 4.0 wt%, and the improvement was greater in NaOH solution. Thiourea showed no obvious effect in LiOH solution, but showed More >