Naveed Ahmad

Adaptation Begins at the Wall: Hormonal Control of Cell-Wall Plasticity Under Abiotic Stresses

The plant cell wall functions as both a mechanical framework and a dynamic environmental sensor, with its remodeling tightly coordinated by phytohormone signaling and cell-wall integrity (CWI) surveillance. This review synthesizes how hormonal networks regulate wall processes including cellulose deposition, pectin modi...

Phytohormone Crosstalk Under Elevated CO2: Linking Sugar Signaling, Stress Resilience, and Metabolic Quality in Tea

This model presents sugar–phytohormone crosstalk as a candidate regulatory junction linking carbon enrichment with stress responses and quality-related metabolism in tea plants and proposes cumulative CO2 enrichment above baseline (Δppm·h) as a treatment-reporting descriptor and hypothesis-generating variable integrati...

Fungal-derived nanoparticles confer cadmium tolerance in maize through transcriptional reconfiguration and microbiome modulation.

The application of nanotechnology presents a promising strategy for mitigating heavy metal toxicity in crops, yet the integrative mechanisms underlying nanoparticle-mediated stress alleviation across the plant-soil system remain poorly understood. Herein, we investigated the transcriptomic and rhizosphere microbial res...

Engineering cold stress resilience in capsicum annuum through functional genomics and precision breeding