+1 862 207 3288 Strategies of adaptations in plants:
Plants have special traits that help them to enhance their tolerance limits to regimes, dry conditions, high temperature, water saturated conditions and saline environments. In plants, flowers have evolved special structures to ensure pollination by insects or other animals. Plants have developed different various mechanisms to deal with stress conditions of the environment. Some of them are:
(a).Adaptations to light regime: In this an individual plant, as well as plant communities, adapt to different light intensities by becoming shade tolerant(sciophytes) or sun adapted(heliophytes).
(b).Adaptations to water scarcity and heat: Plants of hot deserts are adapted to survive in dry conditions of soil and high temperatures.
(c).Adaptations in aquatic environments: Plants which remain permanently immersed in water are called hydrophytes. They may be submerged, or partially submerged and show the presence of aerenchyma which helps to transport oxygen produced during photosynthesis and its free diffusion to other plants.
(d).Adaptations in saline environments: Halophytes are plants of saline environments, which are adapted to grow in high concentration of salt in soil or water. These plants under hot and dry conditions may become succulent and dilute the ion concentration of salts with water they store in cells of stems or leaves.
(e).Adaptations to oligotropic soils.
