Question

Plants, like all organisms, adapt to the conditions of their environment. Some special challenges a plant may face are drought, flooding, and a salty environment. Your task is to identify and describe ways that plants adapt to these challenging conditions in their environment. Select one plant adaptation to drought, one adaptation to flooding, and one for salt tolerance. Explain how each adaptation enhances plant survival. Identify a scholarly source of information for each. Use quotes appropriately; be sure your responses are written in your own words

Answer 1

Hydrophytes is flood tolerant plants, barley is salt tolerant crop and sorghum is a drought tolerant crop.

Step-by-step explanation:

Hydrophytes also known as flood tolerant plants that have adaptations to survive flood problems. The plant has the development of air spaces in the roots and stems which allow diffusion of oxygen from the aerial portions of the plant into the roots. Barley shows a greater degree of salt tolerance by applying method of osmoregulation which helps the plant to tolerate salt stress. Sorghum is a plant that is adapted to drought condition. These plants have less number of stomata and waxy layers on the leaves which lowers the rate of evaporation or transpiration.