Relax. Plants can regulate multiple stresses

Biotic and abiotic stresses play a major role in natural selection in wild plants, but few studies have addressed their responses to different stress factors occurring simultaneously. This phenomenon was investigated by an EU-funded initiative, which explored how combined stress can affect plants differently than a single stress factor acting alone.

Plants have coevolved with an enormous variety of microbial and insect enemies, while enduring heat, cold, water logging and drought. This has resulted in an impressive range of natural adaptive mechanisms that enable plants to deal with different forms of biotic and abiotic stress.

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