ability of a plant to endure high temperatures.
heat tolerance (Wikipedia)
This article may be too technical for most readers to understand. (December 2011) |
Plant breeding is process of development of new cultivars. Plant breeding involves development of varieties for different environmental conditions – some of them are not favorable. Among them, heat stress is one of such factor that reduces the production and quality significantly. So breeding against heat is a very important criterion for breeding for current as well as future environments produced by global climate change (e.g. global warming).