Horticultural Crops under Stresses.

Understanding plant plasticity will result in new genotypes with attributes of interest to farmers and plants adapted to environments under abiotic stresses. In arid and semi-arid regions, abrupt changes in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum cause oxidative stress, germination failures, reduced growth, and changes in gas exchange and plant stands, decreasing grains and fruit production. Oxidative stress decreases dry mass production and leaf water status, compromising crop production. [Extracted from the article]