TY  - GEN
AU  - Sebastiani,Luca
AU  - Francini,Alessandra
TI  - Abiotic Stress Effects on Performance of Horticultural Crops
SN  - books978-3-03921-751-9
PY  - 2019///
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
KW  - heat
KW  - polyphenols
KW  - stomatal conductance
KW  - shelf-life
KW  - transpiration productivity
KW  - transcription
KW  - ornamental plants
KW  - cold
KW  - green areas
KW  - flowering
KW  - agronomic tools
KW  - gas exchange
KW  - ornamental
KW  - prolonged storage
KW  - transpiration
KW  - greenhouse production
KW  - dormancy
KW  - temperature
KW  - irradiance
KW  - chilling requirements
KW  - qPCR
KW  - phenolics
KW  - lodging
KW  - hypoxia
KW  - salinity
KW  - relative humidity
KW  - signal transduction
KW  - chlorophyll fluorescence
KW  - leaf water saturation deficit
KW  - solar radiation
KW  - plant choice
KW  - partial root zone drying
KW  - drought
KW  - electro-conductivity
KW  - growth
KW  - flavonoids
KW  - transpiration efficiency
KW  - cloning
KW  - oxidative stress
KW  - breeding
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Horticultural crop yield and quality depend on genotype, environmental conditions, and production management. In particular, adverse environmental conditions may greatly affect crop performance, reducing crop yield by 50%-70%. Abiotic stresses such as cold, heat, drought, flooding, salinity, nutrient deficiency, and ultraviolet radiation affect multiple physiological and biochemical mechanisms in plants as they attempt to cope with the stress conditions. However, different crop species can have different sensitivities or tolerances to specific abiotic stresses. Tolerant plants may activate different strategies to adapt to or avoid the negative effect of abiotic stresses. At the physiological level, photosynthetic activity and light-use efficiency of plants may be modulated to enhance tolerance against the stress. At the biochemical level, several antioxidant systems may be activated, and many enzymes may produce stress-related metabolites to help avoid cellular damage, including compounds such as proline, glycine betaine, and amino acids. Within each crop species there is a wide variability of tolerance to abiotic stresses, and some wild relatives may carry useful traits for enhancing the tolerance to abiotic stresses in their progeny through either traditional or biotechnological breeding. The research papers and reviews presented in this book provide an update of the scientific knowledge of crop interactions with abiotic stresses
UR  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1772
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39985
ER  -