“…Salicylic acid (SA) is a signaling compound and signal amplifier of phenolic origin, which is related to several regulatory functions in plant metabolism (Mazzuchell et al, 2014). Exogenous application of SA, at low concentrations, enhances pathogen control response and induction of disease resistance (Rivas-San Vicente & Plasencia, 2011), plays an important role on germination, regulation of plant growth and development (Sharafizad et al, 2013), fruit production, water and nutrient uptake and transport (Hayat et al, 2010b), photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance and transpiration (Hayat et al, 2010a), acts as an important non-enzymatic antioxidant agent, activating the response and defense mechanisms to environmental stresses (Hayat et al, 2010a;Kang et al, 2014), herbicide intoxication (Dias et al, 2017), as well as increasing the biomass of the aerial part (Villanueva-Couoh et al, 2009), plant roots (Martín-Mex et al, 2013) and grain yield (Martín-Mex et al, 2012) of treated plants.…”