Priming and Pretreatment of Seeds and Seedlings

1. Front Matter

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2. Methods of Seed Priming

   • Ahmad Sher, Taskeen Sarwar, Ahmad Nawaz, Muhammad Ijaz, Abdul Sattar, Shakeel Ahmad

   Pages 1-10

3. Advances in the Concept and Methods of Seed Priming

   • Muhammad Waqas, Nicholas Emmanuel Korres, Muhammad Daud Khan, Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Farah Deeba, Iftikhar Ali et al.

   Pages 11-41

4. Physiological, Biochemical, and Molecular Aspects of Seed Priming

   • Sadam Hussain, Saddam Hussain, Abdul Khaliq, Shafaqat Ali, Imran Khan

   Pages 43-62

5. Fundamental Processes Involved in Seed Priming

   • Ehab Awad-Allah Ibrahim

   Pages 63-115

6. Seedling Pretreatment: Methods and Protocols

   • Abdul Rehman, Komal Mazhar, Muhammad Ijaz, Qasim Ali, Shakeel Ahmad

   Pages 117-134

7. Effect of Seed Priming on Seed Dormancy and Vigor

   • Muhammad Junaid Rao, Sajjad Hussain, Muhammad Akbar Anjum, Muhammad Saqib, Riaz Ahmad, Muhammad Fasih Khalid et al.

   Pages 135-145

8. Alterations in Plant Secondary Metabolism by Seed Priming

   • Qasim Ali, Sana Ashraf, Muhammad Kamran, Abdul Rehman, Shakeel Ahmad

   Pages 147-161

9. Seed Priming-Induced Early Vigor in Crops: An Alternate Strategy for Abiotic Stress Tolerance

   • Meenakshi Thakur, Poornima Sharma, Anjali Anand

   Pages 163-180

10. Seed Priming Alleviates Stress Tolerance in Rice (Oryza sativa L.)

    • R. K. Sarkar, A. K. Mukherjee, K. Chakraborty

    Pages 181-204

11. Seed Priming-Mediated Improvement of Plant Morphophysiology Under Salt Stress

    • Abdul Rehman, Babar Shahzad, Aman Ullah, Faisal Nadeem, Mohsin Tanveer, Anket Sharma et al.

    Pages 205-217

12. Mechanisms of Seed Priming Involved in Salt Stress Amelioration

    • Magdi T. Abdelhamid, Raafat R. El-Masry, Darwish S. Darwish, Mazhar M. F. Abdalla, Shinya Oba, Ragab Ragab et al.

    Pages 219-251

13. Seed Priming and Seedling Pre-treatment Induced Tolerance to Drought and Salt Stress: Recent Advances

    • Smita Sahoo, Pankaj Borgohain, Bedabrata Saha, Debojyoti Moulick, Bhaben Tanti, Sanjib Kumar Panda

    Pages 253-263

14. Seed Priming Toward Enhanced Chilling Tolerance in Field Crops: An Overview

    • Hafiz Athar Hussain, Sadam Hussain, Shakeel Ahmad Anjum, Saddam Hussain

    Pages 265-286

15. Seed Priming and Metal/Metalloid Stress Tolerance in Plants

    • Abdul Saboor, Ghulam Mustafa, Muhammad Arshad, Muhammad Ahmad, Sajjad Hussain, Niaz Ahmed et al.

    Pages 287-311

16. Advances in Heavy Metal-Induced Stress Alleviation with Respect to Exogenous Amendments in Crop Plants

    • Bedabrata Saha, Bhaben Chowardhara, Saradia Kar, Sanjenbam Sanjibia Devi, Jay Prakash Awasthi, Debojyoti Moulick et al.

    Pages 313-332

17. Seed Priming for Disease Resistance in Plants

    • Ghulam Mustafa, Sajid Masood, Niaz Ahmed, Abdul Saboor, Shakeel Ahmad, Sajjad Hussain et al.

    Pages 333-362

18. Seed Pretreatment as a Means to Achieve Pathogen Control

    • Muhammad Taimoor Shakeel, Rashida Parveen, Idrees Haider, Muhammad Arshad, Shakeel Ahmad, Niaz Ahmad et al.

    Pages 363-371

19. Hydropriming for Plant Growth and Stress Tolerance

    • Muhammad Fasih Khalid, Sajjad Hussain, Muhammad Akbar Anjum, Shaghef Ejaz, Maqsood Ahmad, Mehwish Jan et al.

    Pages 373-384

20. Chemical Priming for Multiple Stress Tolerance

    • Muhammad Arslan Ashraf, Rizwan Rasheed, Iqbal Hussain, Muhammad Iqbal, Muhammad Riaz, Muhammad Saleem Arif

    Pages 385-415

This book introduces readers to both seed treatment and seedling pretreatments, taking into account various factors such as plant age, growing conditions and climate. Reflecting recent advances in seed priming and pretreatment techniques, it demonstrates how these approaches can be used to improve stress tolerance and enhance crop productivity. 


Covering the basic phenomena involved, mechanisms and recent innovations, the book offers a comprehensive guide for students, researchers and scientists alike, particularly Plant Physiologists, Agronomists, Environmental Scientists, Biotechnologists, and Botanists, who will find essential information on physiology and stress tolerance. The book also provides a valuable source of information for professionals at seed companies, seed technologists, food scientists, policymakers, and agricultural development officers around the world.

• Cross tolerance
• Abiotic stress
• Seed biology
• Priming and seedlings
• Seed treatment

• Department of Agronomy, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  Mirza Hasanuzzaman

• Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology and Food Science, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus

  Vasileios Fotopoulos

​Dr. Mirza Hasanuzzaman is Professor of Agronomy at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University in Dhaka. He received his Ph.D. on ‘Plant Stress Physiology and Antioxidant Metabolism’ from Ehime University, Japan with a scholarship from the Japanese government (MEXT). Later, he completed his postdoctoral research at the Center of Molecular Biosciences, University of the Ryukyus, Japan, as a recipient of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellowship. He was also the recipient of the Australian Government’s Endeavour Research Fellowship for postdoctoral research as an Adjunct Senior Researcher at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Dr. Hasanuzzaman’s current work is focused on the physiological and molecular mechanisms of environmental stress tolerance. Dr. Hasanuzzaman has published over 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has edited six books and written 30 book chapters on important aspects of plant physiology, plant stress tolerance, and crop production. According to Scopus®, Dr. Hasanuzzaman’s publications have received about 3,500 citations with an h-index of 30. He is an editor and reviewer for more than 50 peer-reviewed international journals and was a recipient of the ‘Publons Peer Review Award 2017 and 2018’. He has been honored by different authorities for his outstanding performance in different fields like research and education, and he has received the World Academy of Science Young Scientist Award (2014).


Vasileios Fotopoulos is Associate Professor in Structural and Functional Plant Biology and head of the CUT Plant Stress Physiology Group established in 2008. His main scientific research focuses on the study of nitro-oxidative signaling cascades involved in the plant’s response to stress factors, while emphasis is being given in the development of chemical treatment technologies towards the amelioration of abiotic stress factors and promotion of plant growth. To date,Dr. Fotopoulos is the author of 62 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals (h-index=23; Source: Scopus), as well as 7 book chapters. He currently serves as Associate Editor in BMC Plant Biology, Gene and five other journals. He has also been assigned to evaluate competitive research proposals from different countries (France, Belgium, Poland, Chile, Latvia, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Israel, Qatar, Austria, Cyprus, Denmark), EU proposals (EUROSTARS), while he is an active Review Panel Member for COST Actions (EU) in the field of ‘Natural Sciences’. Finally, he has acted as examiner of MSc theses/PhD dissertations from Italy, South Africa and The Netherlands.

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