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Interacting stresses on plants in a changing climate /

The current climatic changes mean increasing environmental stress on plants: gaseous pollutants such as carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, ozone and oxides of nitrogen, together with the impacts of flooding and submergence, drought and cold. The physiological, biochemical and molecular biological base...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service), North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Interacting Stresses on Plants in a Changing Climate
Other Authors: Jackson, Michael B., Black, Colin R., 1948-
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, [1993]
Series:NATO ASI series. Global environmental change ; vol. 16.
Subjects:
Vegetation and climate > Congresses.
Plants > Effect of stress on > Congresses.
Climatic changes > Congresses.
Climatic changes.
Plants > Effect of stress on.
Vegetation and climate.
Planten.
Klimaatveranderingen.
Broeikaseffect.
Plantes > Effets du climat > Congrès.
Plantes, effets du stress sur les > Congrès.
Plants > Physiology
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Conference proceedings.
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Summary:The current climatic changes mean increasing environmental stress on plants: gaseous pollutants such as carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, ozone and oxides of nitrogen, together with the impacts of flooding and submergence, drought and cold. The physiological, biochemical and molecular biological bases of injury to plants and their adaptations to this stress are discussed in this volume. The importance of the combined effects of more than one type of stress is emphasized, e.g. increased ultraviolet (UVB) radiation exacerbating injury from drought or offsetting beneficial effects of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide. The prospects for improving tolerance to environmental stress by genetic engineering are assessed and some examples of recent progress described.
Item Description:"Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."
"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Interacting Stresses on Plants in a Changing Climate held in London, U.K., 13-19 September 1992"--Title page verso.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 771 pages) : illustrations.
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9783642785337 (electronic bk.)
3642785336 (electronic bk.)