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Impact of Biotic, Abiotic Stressors: Biotechnologies for Alleviating Plant Stress

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The past two decades have seen tremendous increase in scientific research exploring stress related impacts on plants and various methods to alleviate stress. More and more scientific proof was accumulated pertaining to molecular changes in plants when subjected to stress. Stress associated genes and regulatory elements, the path ways involved in cross talk of biotic and abiotic stress responses and strategies to engineer plants for stress tolerance. However, stress is still a global issue bothering agriculturist’s worldwide. Stress associated yield declines to an order of even 80 %, were reported in principal crops from several studies and from different parts of the globe. Plant stress biotechnology is presently being re-examined with new age high-throughput tools. Empowered with omics data, transgenics research is being taken to the next level where desired response can be tailored with maximum efficiency. The chapter presents a consolidated review on the physiological and molecular changes that occur in plants in response to different stressors and the mechanisms of adaptation. The principal focus of the chapter is to present a balanced representation of different scientific studies both at physiological and molecular level, engaged in alleviating stress related impairments in plants. The chapter has one complete section devoted to advances in omics research and how they are becoming instrumental in determining the future landscape of stress tolerance and adaptations in plants.

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Sundari, S.K. (2014). Impact of Biotic, Abiotic Stressors: Biotechnologies for Alleviating Plant Stress. In: Miransari, M. (eds) Use of Microbes for the Alleviation of Soil Stresses. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0721-2_6

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