Drought Stress, Its Effects and Adaptation in Plants

Zaheer Abbas, Samia Afzal ,Muhammad Shahid, Iram Amin ,Mohsin Khan, Nadeem Ahmed, Muhammad Idrees, Ahmad Ali Shahid

Abstract

Background:
Among abiotic factors that limit the growth, drought stress is most important one which has adverse effect on plant growth and crop production. When underground water reservoir is reduced and continuous loss of water takes place through stomatal cells of plants during transpiration, such type of situation is called drought stress.

Objective:
Drought stress has effects on a number of physiological and biochemical processes in plant, as a result reduction in plant growth and its yield takes place. Plants responses towards drought stress mainly depends upon factors like intensity, duration and plant growth stage.

Conclusion:
There is worldwide risk of drought stress to the production of crops occurs when physiological and environment factors combine, which needs to be taken care of for better crop production.