Download or read book Biochemical and Cellular Mechanisms of Stress Tolerance in Plants written by Joe H. Cherry and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental stresses, such as high and low temperature, salinity, and drought, represent limiting factors to agricultural productivity worldwide. Their impact is not only on crops that are presently being cultivated, but they are also significant barriers to the introduction of crop plants into noncultivated areas. The book describes the cellular, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms in plants that regulate tolerance to stresses. Also discussed are prospects of engineering stress-tolerant plants through the modification of germplasm.