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SUBMITTER: Elkelish A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7238171 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Elkelish Amr A Qari Sameer H SH Mazrou Yasser S A YSA Abdelaal Khaled A A KAA Hafez Yaser M YM Abu-Elsaoud Abdelghafar M AM Batiha Gaber El-Saber GE El-Esawi Mohamed A MA El Nahhas Nihal N
Plants (Basel, Switzerland) 20200401 4
Chilling, a sort of cold stress, is a typical abiotic ecological stress that impacts the development as well as the growth of crops. The present study was carried to investigate the role of ascorbic acid root priming in enhancing tolerance of tomato seedlings against acute chilling stress. The treatments included untreated control, ascorbic acid-treated plants (AsA; 0.5 mM), acute chilling-stressed plants (4 °C), and chilling stressed seedlings treated by ascorbic acid. Exposure to acute chillin ...[more]