Crop Stress and its Management: Perspectives and Strategies

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Venkateswarlu, B. (Editor), Shanker, Arun K. (Editor), Shanker, Chitra (Editor), Maheswari, M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Plant biochemistry.; Oxidative stress.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant physiology.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Biochemistry.; Oxidative Stress.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Physiology.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.

Crops experience an assortment of environmental stresses which include abiotic viz., drought, water logging, salinity, extremes of temperature, high variability in radiation, subtle but perceptible changes in atmospheric gases and biotic viz., insects, birds, other pests, weeds, pathogens (viruses a...