The plant response: stress in the daily environment

STRESS IS NORMAL Like animals, plants have evolved to survive in almost every climatic and environmental niche available. They have, however, evolved more so-phisticated and varied methods to enable them to survive environmental changes in light, temperature, atmosphere composition, water and nutrients and salinity. This, in part, is necessary because of the sessile nature of plants; they do not have the ability to move to more favourable environments. Stress conditions that plants enc…