To cope with these new challenges many plant breeding programs have reoriented their breeding scope to stress tolerance in the last years the authors of this book have collected the most recent advances and discoveries applied to breeding for abiotic stresses in this book starting with new physiological concepts and breeding methods and moving on to discuss modern molecular biological approaches geared to the development of improved cultivars tolerant to most sorts of abiotic stress. To cope with these new challenges many plant breeding programs have reoriented their breeding scope to stress tolerance in the last years the authors of this book have collected the most recent advances and discoveries applied to breeding for abiotic stresses in this book starting with new physiological concepts and breeding methods and moving on to discuss modern molecular biological approaches geared to the development of improved cultivars tolerant to most sorts of abiotic stress. Klappentext zu plant breeding for abiotic stress tolerance the rapid population growth and the increase in the per capita income especially in the group of emerging countries referred to as bric countries brazil russia india china and south africa has created huge pressure for the expansion of the agricultural growing area and the crop yields to meet the rising demand. To cope with these new challenges many plant breeding programs have reoriented their breeding scope to stress tolerance in the last years the authors of this book have collected the most recent advances and discoveries applied to breeding for abiotic stresses in this book starting with new physiological concepts and breeding methods and moving on to discuss modern molecular biological approaches geared to the development of improved cultivars tolerant to most sorts of abiotic stress. Breeding for abiotic stress tolerance authors authors and affiliations j e parlevliet chapter 199 downloads part of the developments in plant and soil sciences book series dpss volume 61 abstract the combined effect of all abiotic stress factors is worldwide seen enormous and the deterioration of many soils due to poor farm management is aggravating this especially stress factors