Rice is an important food crop in the world. During its growth, it often suffers from drought, low temperature, high temperature, salt and alkali and other stresses, which inhibit the growth and development of rice plants and yield formation. The plant hormone abscisic acid（ABA） plays vital roles in enabling plants to cope with various environmental stress. This review focuses on the effect and mechanism of ABA for enhanced tolerance to chilling stress, high temperature stress, salt stress and alkaline stress in rice. In this paper, the research progress of ABA induced resistance on rice stress resistance was described in detail, in order to provide reference for improving crop stress resistance and yield.