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Abiotic Stress in Plants: Socio-Economic Consequences and Crops Responses

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Evolution has long enabled plants with an adjusted response and tolerance mechanisms in the time facing drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, excessive light, and heavy metals collectively known as abiotic stress, with an accelerated incidence in climate change era owing to a rapid rise in global temperature, which has triggered a domino effect that recent studies announced its destructive influence on agricultural products. These circumstances have exposed crops to an unprecedented level of multi stress that involves a plethora of complicated morphological, physiological and molecular responses as well as survival strategies. The changes assist plants to improve water relations, regulation over oxidative stress and osmotic adjustment and induction of genes that are directly or indirectly initiate networks of signaling to organizational readiness for an arms race in plants against stress-generated harmful products. Its intertwined nature has been the subject of plenty of biological studies to reach a reliable realization of these processes, since this is the safe approach to inject this understanding into selection and breeding programs to create superior cultivars that make a human capacity to provide food to an ever-increasing population on the earth.

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