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Encyclopedia > Abiotic stress

Abiotic stress is caused in living organisms by nonliving environmental factors, such as drought, extreme temperatures, soil conditions, and high winds. Plants are especially dependent on environmental factors, and continued abiotic stress can have harmful effects on them.




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Abiotic stress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (145 words)
Abiotic stress is caused in living organisms by nonliving environmental factors, such as drought, extreme temperatures, edaphic conditions, and high winds.
Plants are especially dependent on environmental factors, and continued abiotic stress can have harmful effects on them or force natural selection.
Plant Stress: coping with plant environmental stress is the foundation of sustainable agriculture.
Annex II Genetic Engineering for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants (1606 words)
Abiotic stresses lead to dehydration or osmotic stress through reduced availability of water for vital cellular functions and maintenance of turgor pressure.
The QTL mapping of stress tolerance in certain species, comparative mapping and map based cloning in plants may be used to screen genes which function under stress as well as those induced and expressed in response to stress.
Thus, abiotic stress accompanying a number of biological phenomena must be precisely investigated by consideration of plant homeostasis.
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