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The combined effect of all abiotic stress factors is worldwide seen enormous and the deterioration of many soils due to poor farm management is aggravating this. Especially stress factors that reduce and retard growth and development (drought, salinity, acidity, frost, heat, water logging, iron shortage etc.) are very important. These stresses tend to occur highly heterogeneously in time and space making selection in the field very inefficient. If the tolerance to the stress factor is simply inherited (tolerance to acid soil and Altoxicity) it is possible to develop an efficient greenhouse or laboratory screening test. Is the tolerance a complex trait no efficient screening test is yet available and breeding for it is a tedious one (drought tolerance) or may not even be advisable at all (salt tolerance).
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Parlevliet, J.E. (1994). Breeding for Abiotic Stress Tolerance. In: Struik, P.C., Vredenberg, W.J., Renkema, J.A., Parlevliet, J.E. (eds) Plant Production on the Threshold of a New Century. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 61. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1158-4_27
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