Defense against stress and active suppression of growth are two complementary strategies
by which plants respond to adverse environments. Although beneficial for plant survival …

Mechanisms that protect against abiotic stress are essential for plant survival, yet their
activation generally comes at the expense of growth and productivity, which is particularly …

Abiotic stress is the adverse effect of any abiotic factor on a plant in a given environment,
impacting plants' growth and development. These stress factors, such as drought, salinity …

Understanding abiotic plant stress and its impact on plant responses and plant adaptation is
a very contemporary issue in plant science, recently driven by the mounting concerns about …

Plant responses to different stresses are highly complex and involve changes at the
transcriptome, cellular, and physiological levels. Recent evidence shows that plants respond …

The molecular response of plants to abiotic stresses has been often considered as a
complex process mainly based on the modulation of transcriptional activity of stress-related …

The sessile lifestyle of plants requires them to cope with stresses in situ. Plants overcome
abiotic stresses by altering structure/morphology, and in some extreme conditions, by …

Environmental insults such as extremes of temperature, extremes of water status, and
deteriorating soil conditions pose major threats to agriculture and food security. Employing …

Facing stressful conditions imposed by their environment that could affect their growth and
their development throughout their life cycle, plants must be able to perceive, to process …

In the wake of shrinking arable land and widespread changes in climate, global agriculture
is threatened. Global losses in agricultural production due to abiotic stresses are estimated …