Effects of abiotic stress on plants: a systems biology perspective

BMC Plant Biology

Table 1 Estimates of the impacts of abiotic stresses on crop production and published research.

Stress Type	% of global land area affected*	% of global rural land area affected**	Number of Publications***
Abiotic Stress		96.5	35,363
Water			4819
Deficit or Drought	64	16	4137
Flooding or Anoxia	13	10	682
Temperature			9715
Cold	57	26	3798
Chilling			187
Freezing			350
High or heat			5380
Light			7659
Low			3081
High			4578
Chemical/Soil		50	12391
Salt or salinity	6	6	3498
Mineral deficiency or low fertility	9	39	222
Mineral toxicity			437
Acid soil	15		3646
Air pollutants
Ozone			1369
Sulfur dioxide			378
NO_x oxide			2001
Elevated CO₂			840
Miscellaneous (e.g. wind, mechanical, etc.)			779

*based on FAO World Soil Resources Report 2000 ftp://ftp.fao.org/agl/agll/docs/wsr.pdf.
** based on Tables three point six and three point seven of 2007 FAO Report http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a1075e/a1075e00.htm
*** data based on simple searches in PubMed between 2001 and July 7, 2011.

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