“…Triacontanol (TRIA) enhances growth and yield of various crop species when applied exogenously as foliar spray at various growth stages (Singh et al, 2011). Foliar-applied TRIA ameliorates the negative effects of various abiotic stresses on growth, physiological, and biochemical processes of different plant species, e.g., Erythrina variegata L. seedlings (Muthuchelian et al, 2003), sweet basil (Borowski and Blamowski, 2009), common duckweed (Kilic et al, 2010), soybean (Krishnan and Kumari, 2008), maize (Ertani et al, 2012), canola (Zulfiqar and Shahbaz, 2013), and sunflower (Aziz et al, 2013). Under salt stress conditions, exogenous application of TRIA has been reported to up-regulate genes involved in the photosynthetic process while down-regulating stress-related genes, modulating activities of different metabolic and antioxidant enzymes, enhancing water and mineral nutrient uptake, and stimulating synthesis of various organic compounds through increased nitrogen metabolism (Perveen et al, , 2012Ertani et al, 2012).…”