Abiotic Stresses: General Defenses of Land Plants and Chances for Engineering Multistress Tolerance

Abiotic stresses, such as low or high temperature, deficient or excessive water, high salinity, heavy metals, and ultraviolet radiation, are hostile to plant growth and development, leading to great crop yield penalty worldwide. It is getting imperative to equip crops with multistress tolerance to r...

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Main Authors: Mei He, Cheng-Qiang He, Nai-Zheng Ding
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2018.01771/full