Khalid Rehman Hakeem1,2,3,*, Hesham F. Alharby1, M. Irfan Qureshi4
Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol., , DOI:10.32604/phyton.2023.030212
Abstract Abiotic stresses, including drought, have been found to affect the growth and medicinal quality of numerous
herbs. The proposed study aims to study the effects of different drought regimes on the metabolic profile, growth,
ecophysiology, cellular antioxidants, and antioxidant potential of Nigella sativa (Black cumin) leaf. Forty-day-old
seedlings of N. sativa were exposed to three regimes of drought (control, moderate and high) for a week. UPLCMS/MS metabolic profile of the leaf reveals the presence of more than a hundred metabolites belonging to anthocyanins, chalcones, dihydro flavonoids, flavonoids, flavanols, flavones, flavonoid carbonoside, isoflavones, etc.
Drought was found to More >