Plant Physiology and Molecular Nutrition
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 June 2024 | Viewed by 4912
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant nutritional signaling and responses; redox homeostasis in plant cells; nitrate reductase biochemistry; ethylene signaling; circadian clock; photosynthetic and respiratory adaptations to nutritional stresses
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
To cope with nutritional deficiency or overload, plants develop both cellular and molecular responses. The mechanisms behind these adaptations are not totally understood, but some hormones (especially auxin, ethylene, gibberellins, abscisic acid, etc.) and signaling substances (microRNAs, NO, free radicals, NADPH, etc.) have been implicated. To confer specificity to each nutrient deficiency, hormones and signaling substances should interact among them in a specific way, or they could act through multiple signaling pathways.
Outlining the genetic regulatory mechanisms for nutrient uptake, accumulation, and distribution in plants will make it possible to develop ideal future plants harboring higher usage efficiency of nutrient elements for adapting to changeable environments. It would be helpful to excavate the germplasms and candidate functional genes and provide new insights into understanding the mechanisms of plant nutritional physiology.
Papers submitted to this Special Issue must report novel results, new regulation working models, and the latest findings related to the regulation of the nutrient signaling responses, mainly focused on new gene (or QTL) identification, new nutrient signaling pathways, the interactions among hormones or gene regulation networks to confer specificity to the nutritional responses, and the crosstalk between environmental stress and nutritional responses.
Additional topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Nutrient signaling pathways and regulatory mechanisms
- Interaction between hormones and nutrition
- Molecular mechanisms of nutrient absorption and transport
- Effects of nutrient deficiency and excess on plant physiology and biochemistry
- Plant adaptation mechanisms to environmental stress
- Genetic improvement of plant utilization of nutrients
Prof. Dr. Shu Yuan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant nutritional physiology
- nutrient signaling
- phytohormones
- gene regulation network
- environment and nutrition crosstalk
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Planned Paper I: Global profile the expression of SAURs in response to nitrate in Arabidopsis - Dr. Kong
Planned Paper II: Long-term cold stress induced metbolic changes of tillering nodes could contribute to the resistance of winter wheat when confronting with salinity - Professor. Dr. Yu