PLANTS AND ENVIRONMENT : POLLUTION CONTROL AND PROTECTION

摘要

The study of stress phenomena and the related resistance mechanisms in plants is important because large areas worldwide cannot be utilized for food production in view of the limitations imposed by natural or man-made enviornmental stresses. The environment is increasingly getting contaminated with the passage of time. Also the increase of population pressure requires maximizing the efficiency of the use of cultivated land and increasing the utilization of marginal soils. Because of the requirement of large amount of energy to alter the environment to suit the plant, it becomes increasingly important to utilize the existing technologies and to develop new ones in order to develop plants that are better adapted to adverse environmental and soil condition.