Question

How to tolerate abiotic stress in plants biology discussion?

Answer 1

One feasible way to combat stress problem is to develop crops that are more tolerant to abiotic stresses such as drought, flooding, heat, salinity, chilling and freezing, so that many new land can be brought under cultivation.

Although traditional plant breeding method provides marginal relief, genetic engineering offers fastest and effective strategy for dealing stresses problem particularly in enhancing plant tolerance to stress. In nature several organisms have evolved resistant traits that enable them to survive in extreme environment.

One of the most classical ways of improving stress tolerance is to assess and characterize resistant gene that confer these properties and can be introduced into higher plants.