Abstract
In different regions around the world, abiotic stresses, including cold, drought, nutrient deficiency, toxicity, salinity, and flooding, minimize the rate of crop production. Abiotic stress problem has become an issue mainly in developing countries where they reason the large population food security, poverty, especially in rural areas. In environmental field conditions, plants experience various environmental stresses at once. According to research plant response to different stresses are varies from in comparison to individual stresses which produce non-additive effects. To understand abiotic stress on plants is a crucial topic in the field of plant research. Molecular biology and physiological analysis have been helped out to draw a map line to understand abiotic stresses in different plants and also Arabidopsis thaliana determination of its genome sequence had quite a great effect on plant research. A. thaliana research has been furnishing a useful understanding of all aspects of modern molecular biology. Complete genome sequences availability made it easy to access necessary information required for all genes, for example, including transcripts level, gene products, and their function, alternative patterns of splicing and putative cis-regulatory elements. Moreover, in natural stress response research in multiple plants instead of A. thaliana give rise to our knowledge related to the plant stress tolerance mechanisms. Based on this knowledge, progress in stress tolerance in crops has been strived by the meaning of marker-assisted breeding and gene transfer. In this chapter, we have summarized current progress in abiotic stress studies and have discussed new range perspectives in new directions for the future in a model plant.
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