increase the hardiness of crop plants. This book is an important assemblage of
chapters that provide an understanding of stress tolerance and potential solutions
to the problem of increasing stress in crop plants.
Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ, USA
James White
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