“…Abiotic stressors alter the homeostasis of the physiological, molecular, and biochemical setup of crop plants, such as water relations, nutrient uptake and assimilation, osmotic deregulation, loss of membrane integrity, impairment in enzyme activity, and the most notable decline in photosynthetic efficiency ( Moradtalab et al, 2018 ; Ahanger et al, 2019 ; Raza, 2021 ; Raza et al, 2021e ). Most of these impairments after exposure to the stress factors are associated with phytohormone production and their transport in underground and aerial parts of plants ( Gangwar et al, 2014 ; Verma et al, 2016 ; Arif et al, 2021 ). Moreover, plants primarily respond to these abiotic stressors by producing reactive oxygen species (ROS), which, in turn, induce severe damage to the cellular structures, such as biomembranes and organelles ( da Silva and Yücel, 2008 ; Hasanuzzaman et al, 2020 ).…”