Plant Abiotic Stress Challenges from the Changing Environment.

Andy Pereira

doi:10.3389/fpls.2016.01123

Abstract

Plant Abiotic Stress Challenges from the Changing Environment.

Highlights

The challenges of abiotic stress on plant growth and development are evident among the emerging ecological impacts of climate change (Bellard et al, 2012), and the constraints to crop production exacerbated with the increasing human population competing for environmental resources (Wallace et al, 2003)
The field of plant abiotic stress encompasses all studies on abiotic factors or stressors from the environment that can impose stress on a variety of species (Sulmon et al, 2015)
A grand challenge in abiotic stress biology is to decipher how plants perceive the different stressors, how the early signals are transduced within the plant, what is the diversity of response pathways elicited by them, and how are they genetically determined (Yoshida et al, 2014)

Summary

Introduction

The challenges of abiotic stress on plant growth and development are evident among the emerging ecological impacts of climate change (Bellard et al, 2012), and the constraints to crop production exacerbated with the increasing human population competing for environmental resources (Wallace et al, 2003). Plants are rooted in the environment they grow in, and have to adapt to the changing conditions brought about by the multitude of environmental factors, with extreme levels eliciting abiotic stress.

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