Plants are sessile organisms and as such must have mechanisms to deal with both abiotic and biotic stresses to ensure survival. The term “abiotic stress” includes many stresses caused by environmental conditions such as drought, salinity, UV and extreme temperatures. Due to global climate change it is predicted that abiotic stresses will increase in the near future and have substantial impacts on crop yields (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change; ). Therefore, understanding abiotic stress responses and the connection between such responses and agronomically important traits is one of the most important topics in plant science. Often plants will experience more than one abiotic stress at a time, making.
