Stress and Stress Coping in Cultivated Plants 87 despite optimal treatment with surgery O.P despite optimal treatment with surgery and radiotherapy Matseevich (KNIIM) and held in Krasnoarmeisk have combined their respective expertises to provide the reader with perhaps a unique text which presents an in depth treatment of the various stress manifestations and an overall discussion of stress in cultivated plants both authors have cooperated and together have written a well integrated and up to date text describing the major stress factors and problems which are limiting factors for optimal plant growth and hence of yield