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Adaptation Strategies of Medicinal Plants in Response to Environmental Stresses

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Environmental Challenges and Medicinal Plants

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During the complete life phase, medicinal plant species encounter varied environmental problems, which have adverse impacts on their growth, productivity, reproductive ability, and survival. These plants develop effective strategies for preventing or tolerating all of these stresses, which helps them to adjust to stressful circumstances. Such types of strategies of adaptation are found at structural, anatomical, hormonal, molecular, and biochemical stages. To adapt and protect themselves from the environment, these plants use different mechanisms including epigenetic memory, molecular crosstalk, ROS (reactive oxygen species) signaling, plant hormone accumulation (such as abscisic acid, jasmonates, ethylene, and salicylic acid), redox status and inorganic ion flux changes, resistance of R-gene, and systemic acquired resistance. A detailed understanding of various strategies used by the plant species to the stress in the environment is needed to enhance the production of crops in stress-like situations. Analyzing plant response to an environmental stress exposes metabolism pathways and other cascades that are activated following a stressful situation. Furthermore, understanding the anatomical and molecular mechanisms of plant species stress response would provide new insights toward the production of genetically engineered species that have high resistance to various stresses.

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Jan, M., Mir, T.A., Khare, R.K., Saini, N. (2022). Adaptation Strategies of Medicinal Plants in Response to Environmental Stresses. In: Aftab, T. (eds) Environmental Challenges and Medicinal Plants. Environmental Challenges and Solutions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92050-0_5

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