Increasing agricultural productivity to meet the demands of growing population is a
challenging task. Abiotic stresses are among the major limiting factors on agriculture. The …

The effects of stressful conditions on plants such as drought, salinity, waterlogging, and high
and low temperatures can have a major impact on plant growth and survival, with important …

Stress conditions are severe problems and limit the crop productivity of modern cultivars.
Abiotic stresses like low and high temperature, drought, water, salinity, heavy metals, and …

Crop science: progress and prospects. Papers presented at the Third International Crop Science
Congress, Hamburg, Germany, 17-22 Page 1 6 Abiotic Stresses, Plant Reactions and New …

Environmental stresses such as waterlogging, drought, salinity, high and low temperature,
and elevated CO 2 levels affect plant development and pose an increasing warning to …

Present climatic changes lead to decrease in timely precipitation, increase in temperature
and have drastic effect on sustainability. Water, food, health, land and environment that are …

Climate change and the consequential unpredictable environmental stress conditions
negatively impact crop productivity. It has thus become a challenge to develop solutions for …

The increase in global population, urbanization and industrialization is resulting in the
conversion of cultivated land into wasteland. Providing food from these limited resources to …

In nature, plants are simultaneously exposed to a combination of biotic and abiotic stresses
that limit crop yields. Only recently, researchers have started understanding the molecular …

Currently, there is a lot of interest in the plant stress response. Using large-scale genomics
approaches, more and more genes are being identified that are involved in or even regulate …