Responses and Tolerance to Abiotic Stress in Forage and Turf Grasses
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2024) | Viewed by 3133
Special Issue Editors
Interests: turf grass; salt stress; growth; plant physiology; molecular regulation
Interests: turf grass; forage; abiotic stress; omics analysis; gene function
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Dear Colleagues,
Forage crops are plants that are used to provide high nutrition for herbivores, and turf grasses are plants that be used on sports fields, golf courses and home lawns. Hence, their growth condition determines the development of animal husbandry and life quality of people. However, the growth and development of plants are limited by diverse environmental stresses such as extreme temperature, water, salinity and soil pollution. To cope with adverse conditions, plants have evolved complex adaptive mechanisms at the physiological, metabolic and molecular levels. The environmental stress response mechanisms and signal pathways of key genes in plants have been research hotspots in recent years. However, the regulation mechanisms are still largely unknown in forage and turf grasses.
This Special Issue aims to highlight impactful research that focuses on revealing the adaptive mechanisms to abiotic stress in forage and turf grasses. This Special Issue will fully embrace disciplinary studies in agriculture that refer to physiology, biochemistry, genetics, and plant–microbe interactions at different levels, i.e., whole plant, cellular, subcellular and molecular levels, of forage and turf grasses. In addition, “omics” studies related to the stress responses of forage and turf grasses, for example, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, etc., are also welcomed.
This Special Issue welcomes the submission of all types of articles, including original research, reviews, methodologies, opinions and commentaries.
Dr. Jibiao Fan
Prof. Dr. Bin Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- forage crop
- turf grass
- abiotic stress
- stress response
- physiology
- genetics
- gene function
- molecular regulation
- omics analysis
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