User:Cattastic123/Abiotic stress

Abiotic stress can affect species richness by causing changes in the food web for secondary consumers (such as loosing the type of animal of which the secondary consumers are supposed to consume) and can cause a negative relationship between different types of species which might cause an imbalance of the food chain.

In plants

An example of plants that adapt to serpentine soil are Metallophytes, or hyperaccumulators, as they are known for their ability to absorbed heavy metals using the root-to-shoot translocation (which it will absorb into shoots rather than the plant itself). They're also extinguished for their ability to absorb toxic substances from heavy metals.

Impact on Food Production

Abiotic stress mostly affected plants that are in the agricultural industry. Mostly because of their constant need of adjusting the mechanisms through the effects of climate change such as coldness, drought, salt salinity, heat, toxins, etc.


 * Rice (Oryza sativa) is a classic example. Rice is a staple food throughout the world, especially in China and India. Rice plants experience different types of abiotic stresses, like drought and high salinity. These stress conditions have a negative impact on rice production. Genetic diversity has been studied among several rice varieties with different genotypes using molecular markers.
 * Chickpea experiences drought which affects its production since it was considered one of the most significant food to be used around the globe.
 * Wheat is one of the major crops that are mostly affected by drought because lack of water would affect the plant development, thus making the leaves withered in the process.
 * Maize has a couple of factors that affects the crop itself. The primary examples are high temperature and drought which was responsible for the changes in plant development and for the loss of the maize crops, respectively..
 * Soybean not only affects the plant itself from drought, but also agricultural production since the world relies on soybeans for its source of protein.