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Linking abiotic stress, plant metabolites, biostimulants and functional food
Author(s) -
Teklić Tihana,
Parađiković Nada,
Špoljarević Marija,
Zeljković Svjetlana,
Lončarić Zdenko,
Lisjak Miroslav
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annals of applied biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1744-7348
pISSN - 0003-4746
DOI - 10.1111/aab.12651
Subject(s) - biology , abiotic stress , abiotic component , plant metabolism , plant growth , fight or flight response , microbiology and biotechnology , botany , ecology , biochemistry , rna , gene
Plants must cope with different environmental stresses during their whole lifetime. Abiotic stresses like drought, salt, mineral nutrition disturbances and temperature stress are commonly interconnected through some physiological events in stressed plants, such as the synthesis of protective plant compounds as a response to stress. Many of these, produced within plant primary or secondary metabolism, act as functional compounds not exclusively in plants but in other organisms as well. Concurrently, many of the active compounds in biostimulants which can support plant stress tolerance and productivity in adverse growth conditions are the metabolites or intermediates that may influence the plant's edible parts nutritional quality. Such effects of biostimulants application are not elucidated enough, therefore, we aimed to give an overview of recent advances in the research related to the interplay among abiotic stress, plant response, biostimulants effects and plant‐derived functional food, focusing on plant metabolites as the link which connects the environment with the food chain.