crop improvement – Botany with Parul

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Engineering Resilient Crops: From Lab Bench to Farmer’s Field

PARUL SHARMA
October 3, 2025

How do discoveries in growth chambers and labs transform into crops that can survive drought, heat, salinity, and disease in real fields? The journey from molecular insights to farmer adoption is long but it is also one of the most…

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Phenomics and High Throughput Tools for Nutritional Traits: A New Era in Plant Nutrition Research

PARUL SHARMA
August 13, 2025

In plant science there has always been a quiet but critical bottleneck: measuring traits accurately and quickly enough to match the pace of genetic and environmental research. While sequencing technologies have leapt ahead, allowing us to read plant genomes with…

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Plant Growth and Development

Nutrient Sensing Mechanisms in Plants: How Roots and Shoots Communicate for Survival

PARUL SHARMA
August 12, 2025

Plants may appear passive, but beneath their stillness lies an intricate network of sensing and signalling systems. Among these, nutrient sensing is one of the most remarkable. Plants need the ability to detect and respond to changing nutrient levels in…

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Plant Molecular Physiology

Reactive Oxygen Species in Plants: Balancing Cellular Damage and Stress Signalling

PARUL SHARMA
June 4, 2025

Plants live in a world of constant environmental uncertainty. Plants face various challenges such as the sweltering heat of a summer drought and the chilling grip of frost. Salinity creeping through irrigation water also poses a threat. Additionally, pathogens and…

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Plant Molecular Physiology

Carbon-Nitrogen Balance in Plants: A Vital Link in Growth, Metabolism, and Stress Response

PARUL SHARMA
June 2, 2025

Plants, as autotrophic organisms, rely on their ability to assimilate carbon through photosynthesis and absorb nitrogen from the soil to sustain their life processes. These two elements are not only essential for plant survival but also intricately linked in ways…

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Plant Molecular Physiology

Carbon-Nitrogen Balance and the Secret to Plant Acclimation Under Stress

PARUL SHARMA
May 26, 2025

In the age of climate uncertainty, plants are frequently exposed to environmental extremes—ranging from drought and salinity to nutrient scarcity and heat waves. These stressors challenge the very foundation of plant growth and survival. At the center of this response…

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Recent Advances in Plant Science

Functional Genomics in Model and Crop Plants: Unlocking the Genetic Code for Sustainable Agriculture

PARUL SHARMA
May 23, 2025

In the last few decades, plant science has undergone a paradigm shift, moving from traditional trait-based breeding towards a more refined, gene-based approach. At the core of this revolution lies functional genomics—a field dedicated to decoding the dynamic roles of…

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Recent Advances in Plant Science

Plant Phenotyping Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

PARUL SHARMA
April 27, 2025

The New Age of Crop Research and Smart Agriculture In the modern era of agriculture, where challenges like climate change, population growth, and resource scarcity loom large, developing climate-resilient, high-yielding, and sustainable crops has become a global priority. One key…