ABSTRACT
Department of Science, Faculty of Arts, Science and Commerce, Mody Institute of Technology and Science, Lakshmangarh, Sikar-332311, Rajasthan, India.
* Corresponding author: gaurrajarshi@hotmail.com # Equal contributors
UV light, metal toxicity, drought, extreme temperatures, high salinity, chemical toxicity and oxidative stress are major limiting factors for plant growth and crop productivity (Oyarce and Gurovich 2012; Choudhary et al. 2012; Martin et al. 2012; Sanghera et al. 2011; Shi et al. 2011). In their quest to feed the ever-increasing world population, agricultural scientists have to contend with these adverse environmental factors. If crops can be redesigned to better cope with abiotic stress, agricultural production can be increased dramatically (Wang et al. 2003). Recent advances in understanding crop abiotic stress resistance mechanisms and the advent of molecular genetic technology and bioinformatics approaches allow us to address these issues much more effi ciently than in the past.
