A major challenge for world agriculture involves the production of 60% more food crop to
feed 9.3 billion people worldwide by 2050 (UN, 2012). In recent years, the escalating threat …

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

Since recent years, the population across the globe is increasing expeditiously; hence
increasing the agricultural productivity to meet the food demands of the thriving population …

Exposure to abiotic stresses has become a major threatening factor that hurdles the
sustainable growth in agriculture for fulfilling the growing food demand worldwide. A …

Environmental stresses represent the most limiting factors for agricultural productivity. Apart
from biotic stress caused by plant pathogens, there are a number of abiotic stresses such as …

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 …

Biotic and abiotic stresses in crops are a major hurdle in attaining potential yield worldwide.
Finding an approach to sustain high yields of crop plants under biotic and abiotic stresses is …

Drought, cold, high-salinity and heat are major abiotic stresses that severely reduce the yield
of food crops worldwide. Traditional plant breeding approaches to improve abiotic stress …

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 …

​​ Abiotic stress has a detrimental impact on the living organisms in a specific environment
and constitutes a major constraint to global agricultural production. The adverse …