tailieunhanh - ABIOTIC STRESS - PLANT RESPONSES AND APPLICATIONS IN AGRICULTURE

Abiotic stresses are serious threats to agriculture and the environment which have been exa‐ cerbated in the current century by global warming and industrialization. According to FAO statistics, more than 800 million hectares of land throughout the world are currently salt-af‐ fected, including both saline and sodic soils equating to more than 6% of the world’s total land area. Continuing salinization of arable land is expected to have overwhelming global impact, resulting in a 30% loss of agricultural land over the next 25 years and up to 50% loss by 2050. Overall, it has been estimated . | ABIOTIC STRESS - PLANT RESPONSES AND APPLICATIONS IN AGRICULTURE Edited by Kourosh Vahdati and Charles Leslie Abiotic Stress - Plant Responses and Applications in Agriculture http 45842 Edited by Kourosh Vahdati and Charles Leslie Contributors Masayuki Fujita Mirza Hasanuzzaman Kamrun Nahar Pavel Pavlousek Martina Ortbauer Lenin Sánchez-Calderón Martha Ibarra-Cortés Isaac Zepeda-Jazo Weronika Wituszynska Stanislaw Karpinski Saul Fraire Victor Emmanuel Balderas-Hernandez Agata Daszkowska-Golec Iwona Szarejko Susana Araujo Ana Sofia Duque André Almeida Anabela Silva Jorge Silva Ana Paula Farinha Dulce Santos Pedro Fevereiro Carole Bassett Allan T. Showler Peer Schenk Kourosh Vahdati Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9 51000 Rijeka Croatia Copyright 2013 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution license which allows users to download copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes as long as the author and publisher are properly credited which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech authors have the right to republish it in whole or part in any publication of which they are the author and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. Notice Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the published chapters. The publisher assumes no responsibility for any damage or injury to persons or property arising out of the use of any materials instructions methods or ideas contained in the book. Publishing Process Manager Ana Pantar Technical Editor InTech DTP team Cover InTech Design team First published March 2013 Printed in Croatia A free online