Abiotic Stress in Plants
The four major abiotic stresses:salinity, heavy metals, temperature and drought, cause drastic yield reduction in most crops. Plants have complex and dynamic systems of response to stress stimuli which are much more intricate than found in animals despite the absence of an immune system in plants. The paramount reason for this is that plants do not process the ability to simply move away from the region of stressful stimuli.
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Thursday, November 17, 2005
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