**6. Conclusion**

There are a broad variety of abiotic stresses that adversely influence the crops. In crops there are prevalent abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, elevated temperature, low temperature, and metal toxicity. The symptoms of stress, of course, vary with its severity, from being elusive to disastrous. The crops undergo various kinds of modifications due to abiotic stresses, which can cause antagonistic effects on growth and development of plant. The complexity and type of abiotic stress reactions promote the use of extensive, integrative and multidisciplinary techniques to achieve the various levels of stress response regulation. The crops are undergoing modifications such as decreased relative water content, increased ROS output, enhanced relative stress injury, cell electrolyte leakage, decreased photosynthetic pigment amount, decreased root and shoot length, decreased yield, etc. The crops are undergoing numerous morphological, physiological, biochemical and molecular modifications to overcome the impacts of drought. Lately, there has been a lot of attraction in managing abiotic stress in plants. With the growing growth of high performance genomic instruments, crops have created many new methods to combat abiotic stress.

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and Mohini Patel

Summy Yadav\*, Payal Modi, Akanksha Dave, Akdasbanu Vijapura, Disha Patel

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Division of Biological and Life Sciences, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India

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*Effect of Abiotic Stress on Crops*

*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.88434*

*Effect of Abiotic Stress on Crops DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.88434*
