Plants under stress (Leading national scientific school on environmental physiology of plants)

A brief historical essay is presented on the leading Russian scientific school plant environmental physiology, which has for over 60 years been studying issues of adaptation to adverse factors (low and high temperatures, excessive lighting, heavy metals, etc.). The tells about main sources prerequisites its foundation, development this key results achievements since 1970. most important among latter are data phenomenology responses stress studies underlying physiological, biochemical molecular genetic mechanisms.