Climate change and extremophytes

Climate change is expected to increase the intensity and frequency of the abiotic stresses to plants threatening the plant growth and development and sustainable agriculture yield. This climate crisis will be escalated in the decades to come. The rate of evolutionary adaptations of crop species to cope with the changing environment is slower than the rate of change in climate. So, naturally adapted plant species (also known as extremophytes) are better suited to study in the era of climate change. The goal of this study is to summarize the overview of the physiological, molecular, and architectural changes under individual or the multiple environmental stresses in extremophytes.