ABSTRACT
Crocus sativus is known as saffron and is a valuable spice for its red stigmas worldwide. This species under edaphoclimatic conditions, including soil properties, precipitation, geographical coordinates and especially temperature has changeable yields in terms of production of daughter corms and stigma yield. Therefore, understanding saffron plant responses to common stressful conditions can help farmers to manage its cultivation sustainability and have more economic profitability, and make more profits for final consumers pharmaceutically, and in terms of healthy nutrition. Saffron cultivation regions suffer from various stressful conditions, including biotic and abiotic stresses. In this chapter, the impacts of the mentioned stresses on saffron plants are described, and then some plant strategies are introduced at various morphological, biochemical and omics levels. Based on these plant strategies, different methods of agricultural management such as irrigation methods, use of agricultural inputs, various classic and modern technologies (in terms of production and breeding) and the application of stimulants are described.
