Muhammad Zafar-ul-Hye*, Muhammad Shakeel Nawaz, Hira Asghar, Muhammad Waqas and Fiza Mahmood
Leguminous crops are beneficial components of sustainable crops production. Biotic and abiotic stresses especially salinity is a wide spread environmental problem. It is more profound in the irrigated areas, where the underground water is brackish. Plant vegetative and reproductive growth is adversely affect by salinity and other abiotic stresses like drought and presence of heavy metals etc. Certain organic compounds which are produced at cellular level in plants help in reducing the effect of different stresses through increasing the nutrients uptake efficiency, antioxidants activity and by decreasing the toxicity of ions. Caffeicacid is actively involved in the synthesis of lignin in plants. Increasing the thickness of cell wall and improving plants defense mechanism become active against any stress like ion toxicity and heavy metals contamination. Superoxide radical binds due to use of caffeic acid, thus decreasing the stress of salinity to minimize lipoxygenase function. The ferulic acid is produced through caffeic acid mobilization by o-methyl transferase. Exogenous application of caffeic acid is a good enough option against different stresses like salinity, drought and heavy metals
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