“…Further, safener treatments are associated with detoxifying cytotoxins and stress‐induced reactive oxygen species (ROS), and as a result lead to increased protection from herbicides, pollutants, and abiotic stresses (Dashevskaya et al., 2013; DeRidder et al., 2002; Jablonkai, 2013; Panfili et al., 2017; Panfili et al., 2019; Riechers & Green, 2017; Riechers et al., 2010; Taylor et al., 2013; Ye et al., 2019). Among the many approaches used to enhance abiotic stress tolerance in plants, exogenous application of agrochemicals such as safeners is considered a new strategy (Abu‐Qare & Duncan, 2002; Bianchi et al., 2020; Dashevskaya et al., 2013; Taylor et al., 2013). Another approach of seed priming using chemicals such as salicylic acid, glycinebetaine, KCl, PEG, GA3 and CaCl 2 has been studied in maize (Farooq et al., 2008; Farooq, Aziz, Basra, Wahid, et al., 2008; Farooq et al., 2008; Farooq, Aziz, Hussain, et al., 2008), and sorghum (Zhang et al., 2015; Pinheiro et al, 2018) to induce abiotic stress tolerance, leading to improved seedling vigour.…”