Plant, abiotic stress and responses to climate change / edited by Violeta Andjelkovic.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andjelkovic, Violeta, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plants--Adaptation.

Plants.

Plants--Effect of stress on.

Vegetation and climate.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 176 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

IntechOpen 2018

London, England : IntechOpen, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Climate change is a serious problem influencing agricultural production worldwide and challenging researchers to investigate plant responses and to breed crops for the changed growing conditions. Abiotic stresses are the most important for crop production, affecting about 96.5% of arable land worldwide. These stress factors include high and low temperature, water deficit (drought) and flooding, salinity, heavy metals, UV radiation, light, chemical pollutants, and so on. Since some of the stresses occurred simultaneously, such as heat and water deficit, causing the interactions of physiological processes, novel multidisciplinary solutions are needed. This book provides an overview of the present state in the research of abiotic stresses and molecular, biochemical, and whole plant responses, helping to prevent the negative impact of global climate change.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (InTech, viewed October 14, 2022).

ISBN:

9781838814403

183881440X

9781789231236

178923123X