Naveed Ahmad

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

Elevated atmospheric CO2 (eCO2) is commonly treated as a photosynthetic substrate, yet in horticultural crops it also alters carbon status and signaling processes associated with stress resilience and quality-related metabolism. Tea (Camellia sinensis) is particularly valuable because young-shoot metabolites are closel...

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