Drought stress (DS) is one of the most important abiotic factors unfavorably affecting physiological and biochemical processes in plants3,6. Osmotic adjustment (OA), a well-known mechanism in response to DS in many plants7, refers to a reduction of osmotic potential in response to a net osmoly...
Mean data regarding the morpho-physiological traits as affected by the biofertilizers application under water stress are presented in Table2. Soybean seedlings grown under normal irrigation have the highest root length and plant dry weight as compared with plants grown under withholding water at R3 an...
Since the name “guar” means “cow food” in Hindi [14], there has been interest in using the byproducts of guar gum production as an animal feed, especially when large quantities of guar gum were utilized in the oil and gas industry. An Iranian study found that 4 percent of soybean ...
The differences between the means were determined using Tukey’s test (p < 0.05). The data presented in the figures are the means ± standard error (SE) (Graphpad 7.0). The principal component loading plot and scores of PCA were performed using Minitab 16, LLC. 3. Results 3.1. ...