Plants, unlike animals, exhibit a very high degree of plasticity in their growth and development and employ diverse strategies to cope with the variations during diurnal cycles and stressful conditions.
Plants have evolved various developmental and physiological strategies to control daily activities that respond to variable and extreme environmental conditions
However, the majority of studies are restricted to acute and single stress only (Zhu, 2016). Since stresses are usually multiple, recurring and chronic, plants have evolved sophisticated defense mechanisms to deal with a variety of stresses. Plants have the ability to acquire tolerance to chronic stress through establishing “molecular stress memory...
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