Research Progress of Plant Flavonoids
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural and Floricultural Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 January 2022) | Viewed by 563
Special Issue Editors
Interests: legume–rhizobia symbiosis; nitrogen fixation; root–microbe interactions; rhizosphere signalling; flavonoids; plant hormones
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Interests: legume–rhizobia symbiosis; plant–microbe interactions; flavonoids; plant hormone signalling; plant pathogens; secondary metabolites
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Flavonoids have long fascinated plant scientists because of their chemical and functional diversity in plants. The properties of flavonoids have been utilised in the food and pharmaceutical industry as antioxidants, therapeutics and colours. While flavonoids play multiple roles in plants - as allelochemicals, in plant protection against pathogens, in the formation of symbioses, for example with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, in the acquisition of nutrients from the soil and in abiotic stress tolerance – their potential in improving plant performance has not been fully exploited.
While many potential roles for flavonoids in plant performance have been suggested, there is a lack of understanding of the importance of flavonoids function under field conditions, especially under multitrophic conditions involving abiotic and biotic stress from multiple organisms – symbionts or pathogens. This special issue aims to address this knowledge gap and focus on the opportunities to better utilise the functions of flavonoids in plant performance, both in the field and under controlled conditions. Particular attention will be given to studies that demonstrate the potential for flavonoids in enhancing abiotic or biotic stress tolerance, as well as in improving nutrient acquisition and to suggest mechanism of action for flavonoids under these stresses.
Dr. Ulrike Mathesius
Dr. Jason Liang Pin Ng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- flavonoids
- abiotic stress response
- plant–microbe interactions
- antioxidants
- plant pathogens
- symbiosis
- nutrient acquisition
- crop breeding
- metabolic markers
