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Molecular Approaches for Combating Multiple Abiotic Stresses in Crops of Arid and Semi-arid Region

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Under constantly changing environmental conditions; crop plants are exposed to abiotic stresses, which lead to affect growth and development including the productivity of agricultural crops. Understanding the mechanism of stress at molecular level and improving crop varieties for tolerance to abiotic stress is a challenging task. In Arid and semi-arid regions, the agricultural crops are challenged to multiple abiotic stresses (draught, salinity and heat), simultaneously. The conditions like low annual rainfall, soil salinity, and variable high temperature conditions lead to low agricultural productivity. Exposure to the abiotic stresses induces a complex signaling pathway in different plant species and resulting into variable molecular, biochemical and physiological changes to acclimatize under stress conditions including multiple abiotic stresses simultaneously. In different sections of this chapter, the metabolic changes in plants in response to draught, salinity, and temperature stress is described followed by an insight into plant signaling pathways and possible biochemical, physiological and molecular approaches for alleviating the negative effects of these stresses.

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Kumar, V. et al. (2019). Molecular Approaches for Combating Multiple Abiotic Stresses in Crops of Arid and Semi-arid Region. In: Singh, S., Upadhyay, S., Pandey, A., Kumar, S. (eds) Molecular Approaches in Plant Biology and Environmental Challenges. Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0690-1_8

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