title: Effects of herbicide applications in wheat fields: is phytohormones application a remedy?
abstract: The present review encompasses the physiological and yield constraints of herbicide applications with special reference to wheat productivity. Post-independence lagging of Indian agriculture to feed its population led to haphazard use of chemical pesticides and weedicides which deteriorated the productivity pay-off particularly of wheat and rice. Past some decades witnessed the potential use of certain phytohormones in augmenting abiotic stress to get rid of yield gap and productivity constraints. We summed up with reviewing the potential role of these natural regulators in overcoming above mentioned drawbacks to substitute or to integrate these chemicals with the use of plant hormones.
authors.affiliation: Plant Physiology Section, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Sugandha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Varshney
authors.forename: Shamshul
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hayat
authors.forename: Mohammed Nasser
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Alyemeni
authors.forename: Aqil
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ahmad
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D018533:Biomass; D006540:Herbicides / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007194:India; D012275:Oryza / Q000187:drug effects / Q000254:growth & development; D010937:Plant Growth Regulators / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013312:Stress, Physiological; D014908:Triticum / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000254:growth & development
chemical_list: D006540:Herbicides; D010937:Plant Growth Regulators