Response and Defence Mechanisms of Vegetable Crops against Drought, Heat and Salinity Stress

• Published in: Agriculture (Basel) Vol. 11; no. 5; p. 463
• Main Authors: Giordano, Maria, Petropoulos, Spyridon A., Rouphael, Youssef
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 19.05.2021
• Subjects: Abiotic stress; Adaptation; Agricultural practices; Agricultural production; agriculture; Carbon dioxide; Climate change; Climatic conditions; Crops; Defense mechanisms; Drought; Environmental conditions; Environmental effects; Environmental stress; extreme temperature; Farm buildings; Food safety; Genetically altered foods; genomics; Genotypes; Greenhouse effect; Heat; High temperature; Kinases; Metabolism; Morphology; osmotic stress; Physiology; Plant morphology; pollution; Proteins; Salinity; Salinity effects; salt stress; Sustainable agriculture; Sustainable practices; temperature; Tomatoes; Transcription factors; Tree crops; trees; Vegetables; water stress

Environmental pollution, increasing CO2 atmospheric levels and the greenhouse effect are closely associated with the ongoing climate change and the extreme climatic events we are witnessing all over the Earth. Drought, high temperature and salinity are among the main environmental stresses that nega...