Abiotic stresses in plants. * Sanita di Toppi L, Pawlik-Skowronska B, eds. 2003. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. {pound}67 (hardback). 233 pp

Abiotic stress has a very highprofile in the plant sciences at the moment. The problem offeeding many more people (perhaps 4 to even 6 billion by theend of the century) may have a potential solution in the formof molecular biological manipulation. This, it is frequentlyclaimed, will give plants able to produce large amounts of biomassand edible material with minimal resources under what are, currently,very adverse conditions. Well, is it true? I looked to thisbook to find out more