Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress
Hirt, Heribert / Shinozaki, Kazuo![Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/106/10687981/CHSBZCOP0310687981.jpg)
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 extremes in temperature,
drought, salinity, heavy metals and radiation which
all have detrimental effects on plant growth and yield.
However, certain plant species and ecotypes have
developed various mechanisms to adapt to such
stress conditions.
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