Abstract
The optimum development of barley over its life cycle depends on a number of environmental stress factors that can prevent the plant’s expressing its maximum genetic potential. Severe grain losses are often caused by high or low temperatures, drought, anaerobiosis, and such soil anomalies as excess salt. The responses elicited from the plant by these stresses, when not lethal, include alterations in its processes of photosynthesis, respiration, and hormonal regulation through the development of specific, adaptive defense systems and mechanisms that are molecularly controlled. The duration of the stress and the plant’s growth stage at the former’s onset in turn affect yield. One can also find differing reactions as to plant susceptibility to adverse conditions. Thus, genetic variability plays a primary role in determining positive adaptation to environmental stresses and, hence, in supporting the spread of various barley genotypes to extreme climatic conditions (Stanca et al., 1992).
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Cattivelli, L. et al. (1994). Molecular Analysis of Cold-Hardening in Barley. In: Cherry, J.H. (eds) Biochemical and Cellular Mechanisms of Stress Tolerance in Plants. NATO ASI Series, vol 86. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79133-8_31
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