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Environment and the experimental control of plant growth.
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ISBN: 0122214501 9780122214509 Year: 1978 Volume: 6 Publisher: London Academic press


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Modifying the root environment to reduce crop stress.
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ISBN: 0916150402 9780916150402 Year: 1981 Publisher: Saint Joseph American society of agricultural engineers

Abiotic stresses in plants
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ISBN: 1402016484 9048164346 9401702551 9781402016486 Year: 2003 Publisher: Dordrecht Kluwer

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Abstract

Much of Europe has been complaining recently of unseasonal weathe- disastrous floods in Eastern Europe, temperatures reaching over 40"C in Central Europe, no decent rain for months in parts of the Balkans, coupled with unusually long and severe frosts in winter. Indeed, wheat yields in Serbia for 2003 are expected to be reduced by over 30% because of the combination of a long frost during winter with insufficient protective snow cover, very low rainfall in the spring months and sudden high temperatures reaching over 30·C at the time of flowering. So, with this background, it is very timely that this volume on Abiotic Stresses in Plants has been put together. Each of the eight chapters focuses on a different aspect of abiotic stress, presenting reviews of recent advances in the subject. Rather than summarise the contents of each chapter, I'll focus on some of the advances in technologies presented here for elucidating the molecular, genetic and biochemical mechanisms that regulate plant responses to stresses and which also provide opportunities for improving plant performance under abiotic stresses. The last 20 years has seen a revolution in the availability of technologies for this, starting with the development of transformation technologies to study the role of an individual gene, then came molecular marker technologies to study the genetic control of stress responses, and in recent years the '-omics' (genomics, proteomics and metabolomics) have been developed to create an integrated picture of how the plant responds to a particular stress.

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Crops --- Effect of stress on. --- Physiology. --- 58.02 --- 632.11 --- 632.12 --- 632.15 --- 632.18 --- Effect of external factors. Collective effect of several factors. Stress --- Unfavourable meteorological or climatic conditions. Damage by weather --- Unfavourable soil conditions --- Atmospheric impurities. Chemical or industrial pollution --- Other non-parasitic complaints. Mechanical injuries. Fire damage. Bomb and blast damage --- Plant and Crop Sciences. Crops --- Crops (General) --- Crops (General). --- 632.18 Other non-parasitic complaints. Mechanical injuries. Fire damage. Bomb and blast damage --- 632.15 Atmospheric impurities. Chemical or industrial pollution --- 632.12 Unfavourable soil conditions --- 632.11 Unfavourable meteorological or climatic conditions. Damage by weather --- 58.02 Effect of external factors. Collective effect of several factors. Stress --- Plant physiology --- Stress (Physiology) --- Effect of stress on --- Physiology --- Plant physiology. --- Plant science. --- Botany. --- Air pollution. --- Climate change. --- Plant Physiology. --- Plant Sciences. --- Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution. --- Climate Change. --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Air --- Air contaminants --- Air pollutants --- Air pollution --- Air pollution control --- Air toxics --- Airborne pollutants --- Atmosphere --- Contaminants, Air --- Control of air pollution --- Pollutants, Air --- Toxics, Air --- Pollution --- Air quality --- Atmospheric deposition --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Plants --- Botany --- Environmental aspects --- Control --- Floristic botany --- Crops - Effect of stress on. --- Crops - Physiology.

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