IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON PLANT MOLECULAR STRESS RESPONSES

Abstract

A growing number of environmental stressors, including drought, high temperatures, salt, and rising CO2, have an impact on plant growth and are a danger to sustainable agriculture. Concerns regarding how climate change may affect plant resources, biodiversity, and global food security have made this a contentious topic. Important alterations to the "-omic" architecture are necessary for plants to adjust to stress. Here, we provide a summary of the physiological and molecular mechanisms involved in stress adaptation, emphasizing the modifications that individual and repeated environmental stressors cause to metabolites, proteins, and genes. We discuss the potential contribution of "-omics" research in conjunction with systems biology techniques to the study of both plants that appear to be resistant to climate change and those that are able to adapt.