Abiotic stress is defined as the negative impact of non-living factors on the living organisms in a specific environment.
Abiotic stress. Outside (nonliving) factors which can cause harmful effects to plants, such as soil conditions, drought, extreme temperatures.
Abzyme. See Catalytic antibody.
Crops containing genes that will enable them to withstand biotic and abiotic stresses may be developed. For example, drought and excessively salty soil are two important limiting factors in crop productivity.
For example, the GO slim process term "response to abiotic and biotic stimulus" encompasses all of the more specific processes such as response to abiotic stress and response to abiotic stress and each of their children.
 See also: Population, Protein, Bacteria, Base pair, Cells
  
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