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Abstract

Plant Stress Tolerance: Engineering ABA: A Potent Phytohormone

Shabir H Wani and Vinay Kumar

Abiotic stresses, primarily drought, salinity, heat, cold, flooding and ultra-violet rays are causing widespread crop losses worldwide. Because of the complexity of the stress-tolerance traits, conventional breeding techniques have met with little success in fulfilling the world fooddemands . Therefore, to face the abiotic stresses, novel and potent approaches should be devised and engineering of phytohormones could be a method of choice to increase the crop productivity