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Stress adaptation in plants refers to the suite of molecular, physiological, and morphological mechanisms that allow plants to sense, respond to, and survive adverse environmental conditions such as drought, heat, salinity, and pathogen attack. Understanding these adaptive strategies is critical for plant science because plants, as sessile organisms, cannot escape stressors and must instead evolve sophisticated regulatory networks to maintain growth and reproduction under duress. Research in this area drives advances in crop improvement, enabling scientists to engineer or breed more resilient varieties capable of sustaining yields in the face of climate change and resource limitation.

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