Plants under attack: Surviving the stress

AZEVEDO RA; TEKLIć T; BENAVIDES MP

Annals of Applied Biology

Wiley

Año: 2021 vol. 178 p. 132 - 134

1744-7348

Climate change is here and many believe earth has reach the pointof no return, or we are likely to be very close to it due to our irresponsibleattitude towards the environment, the denial of many, and all humanactivities. Emissions of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases, increasingglobal temperatures, melting of icecaps and other environmental conditionseverywhere in the world are pushing life in the planet into anunavoidable environmental catastrophe. This is all extremely worryingand makes crystal clear how much we have failed as a society in makingour world a safe place to live and to ensure a much better and saferenvironment for next generations (selected references on generalaspects of Climate Change potential impacts: Bordignon, Faria, França,& Fernandes, 2019; Molotoks, Smith, & Dawson, 2021; Pais et al., 2020;Shehzad, Gulzar, Staley, & Tariq, 2021; Verrall & Pickering, 2020).