Action is needed to face the global threat arising from inconsistent rainfall, rise in
temperature, and salinization of farm lands which may be the product of climate change. As …

Increased incidences of abiotic and biotic stresses impacting productivity in principal crops
are being witnessed all over the world. Extreme events like prolonged droughts, intense …

Crops aimed at feeding an exponentially growing population are often exposed to a variety
of harsh environmental factors. Although plants have evolved ways of adjusting their …

Achieving sustainable agricultural production while keeping the environmental quality and
agro-ecosystem function and biodiversity is a real challenge in current agricultural practices …

With the continuous increase in human population, there is widespread usage of chemical
fertilizers that are responsible for introducing abiotic stresses in agricultural crop lands …

The biotic and abiotic stresses are key constraints for food quality, crop yield and global food
security. It is necessary to take action to cope with global threats caused by abiotic and biotic …

Human activities, industrialization and civilization have deteriorated the environment which
eventually has led to alarming effects on plants and animals by heightened amounts of …

Plants are constantly exposed to both biotic and abiotic stresses which limit their growth and
development and reduce productivity. In order to tolerate them, plants initiate a multitude of …

In subsistence agricultural systems, crop yields are directly dependent on the inherent soil
fertility and on microbial processes that govern the mineralization and mobilization of …

Due to increasing incidences of a large number of different biological and nonbiological
stresses all over the world, the growth of crop plants may be restrained by these stresses in …