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Importance of Protective Compounds in Stress Tolerance

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Physiological Mechanisms and Adaptation Strategies in Plants Under Changing Environment

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Plants are delimited by variety of environmental stresses which affect them throughout their life cycle. These stresses particularly salt, cold, and drought hamper their development, productivity resulting in great loss in crop yield across globe. To overcome environmental stresses, plants have acquired wide range of defensive response including altered gene expression, change in cellular metabolism in terms of accumulation of low-molecular-weight compounds. These metabolites include amino acids, sugars, sugar alcohols, and quaternary amines that protect proteins and membranes against damage. This chapter is intended to give an overview of osmoprotective compounds with an emphasis on recent advances describing their function, significance in adaptation, and their potential to perk up stress tolerance.

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The authors would like to thank Prof. Laszlo SZABADOS (Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Center, Szeged, Hungary) for his precious help.

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Sağlam, A., Jan, S. (2014). Importance of Protective Compounds in Stress Tolerance. In: Ahmad, P., Wani, M. (eds) Physiological Mechanisms and Adaptation Strategies in Plants Under Changing Environment. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8600-8_9

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