Paper Details

Name: Harsharan Singh, Navleen Kaur Chopra
Email: harsharan78@gmail.com
Country: India

Year: 2017
Volume: Volume-4, Issue-1

Plants are always under the exposure of light and various abiotic factors. High and low level exposure of plants to these factors leads to generation of one or other types stress conditions in plants. These types of stress conditions are often visible in terms morphological changes like alternation in root and shoot length, leaf size and leaf colour and enzyme activities. As plants always remained fixed to their place, they could not move to avoid these stresses. Therefore, plants undergo various types metabolic shifts and changes in activities of various enzymes associated with their metabolism. Light and various types of solutes namely gibberellic acid, sucrose, polyethylene glycol, gibberellic acid magnesium chloride and glucose are the common abiotic factors inhabited by all the plants in any habitat. Catalase is one of the most important stress combating enzyme that are present in almost all the plants. The present study detailed the morphological changes in response to these abiotic factor and possible role of catalase during these processes. The present study was carried in Brassica campestris widely cultivated as a leaf vegetable and for edible oil used in cooking.