Abiotic / Biotic Stress
Numerous stress factors can have a negative impact on the growth and health of plants. These include, for example, insects, fungal diseases, weeds, bacteria or viruses – these are known as “biotic” factors.
The "abiotic" stressors – that is, stressors that involve no living beings – include drought, heat, cold or soil salinization. They are responsible for the sometimes dramatic yield losses in many regions of the world. Some plant protection products such as insecticides or fungicides have, in addition to their actual effect, a positive side effect on the stress tolerance of plants. In contrast to breeding, which aims for permanent drought tolerance, for example, a temporary protective effect against abiotic stress can be achieved with plant protection.
Terms from the glossary
- Abiotic / Biotic Stress
- Agroecology
- Analytics
- Bees
- Bio-dynamic agriculture
- Biocides
- Biodiversity
- Biologicals
- Biotechnology
- Carcinogenic
- Causality
- Chemophobia
- Cisgenic Plants
- Climate change
- Conventional agriculture
- Correlation
- CRISPR/Cas9
- Digital Agriculture
- Flower strips
- Food Loss
- Food security
- Food Waste
- Gene editing
- Genetic engineering
- Hazard
- Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHP)
- Insect deaths
- Integrated Pest Management
- Limit values
- Metabolites
- Molecular Pharming
- Mutation breeding
- Organic farming
- Organic pesticides
- Pesticide
- Plant breeding
- Plant protection products
- Poison cocktail
- Population growth
- Precautionary principle
- Precision Fermentation
- Regenerative agriculture
- Resilience in the food system
- Resource efficiency
- Risk
- Rural exodus
- Seed treatment, seed dressing
- Species diversity
- Sustainability
- Synthetic pesticides
- Taxonomy
- The Green Revolution
- Transgenic plants
- Urban Farming
- Water scarcity
- Weeds