Exogenous melatonin confers drought stress by promoting plant growth, photosynthetic capacity and antioxidant defense system of maize seedlings

Shakeel Ahmad, Muhammad Kamran, Ruixia Ding, +5

PeerJ

EngineeringBotanyMaize SeedlingCrop PhysiologyAbiotic Damage +19

Ameliorative effect of melatonin improves drought tolerance by regulating growth, photosynthetic traits and leaf ultrastructure of maize seedlings

Shakeel Ahmad, Ihsan Muhammad, Guo Yun Wang, +4

BMC Plant Biology

Performance and relationship of four different agricultural drought indices for drought monitoring in China's mainland using remote sensing data

Tehseen Javed, Yi Li, Sadaf Rashid, +7

The Science of The Total Environment

Precision AgricultureEnvironmental MonitoringEngineeringDroughtDrought Risk Management +8

Effect of paclobutrazol, a potential growth regulator on stalk mechanical strength, lignin accumulation and its relation with lodging resistance of maize

Muhammad Kamran, Wenwen Cui, Irshad Ahmad, +8

Plant Growth Regulation

Plant-soil InteractionEngineeringBotanyCrop ProtectionAgricultural Economics +7

Exogenous Application of Melatonin Induces Tolerance to Salt Stress by Improving the Photosynthetic Efficiency and Antioxidant Defense System of Maize Seedling

Shakeel Ahmad, Wenwen Cui, Muhammad Kamran, +8

Journal of Plant Growth Regulation

BiologySalt StressPlant StressBotanyExogenous Application +8

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index as a Tool for Wheat Yield Estimation: A Case Study from Faisalabad, Pakistan

Syeda Refat Sultana, Amjed Ali, Ashfaq Ahmad, +4

The Scientific World JOURNAL

Uniconazole application strategies to improve lignin biosynthesis, lodging resistance and production of maize in semiarid regions

Irshad Ahmad, Muhammad Kamran, Shahzad Ali, +6

Field Crops Research

BioenergyCrop ProtectionAgricultural EconomicsSemiarid RegionsPlant Production +4

Foliar application of melatonin delay leaf senescence in maize by improving the antioxidant defense system and enhancing photosynthetic capacity under semi-arid regions

Shakeel Ahmad, Wennan Su, Muhammad Kamran, +5

PROTOPLASMA

BiologyBotanyAntioxidant Defense SystemNatural SciencesPhysiology +8

Melatonin-priming enhances maize seedling drought tolerance by regulating the antioxidant defense system

Ihsan Muhammad, Li Yang, Shakeel Ahmad, +8

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Interactive Effects of Melatonin and Nitrogen Improve Drought Tolerance of Maize Seedlings by Regulating Growth and Physiochemical Attributes

Shakeel Ahmad, Guo-Yun Wang, Ihsan Muhammad, +4

Antioxidants