Importance of Protective Compounds in Stress Tolerance

摘要: Plants are delimited by variety of environmental stresses which affect them throughout their life cycle. These particularly salt, cold, and drought hamper development, productivity resulting in great loss crop yield across globe. To overcome stresses, plants have acquired wide range defensive response including altered gene expression, change cellular metabolism terms accumulation low-molecular-weight compounds. metabolites include amino acids, sugars, sugar alcohols, quaternary amines that protect proteins membranes against damage. This chapter is intended to give an overview osmoprotective compounds with emphasis on recent advances describing function, significance adaptation, potential perk up stress tolerance.