Molecular Regulatory Mechanisms of Salinity Tolerance in Plants 2.0

Dear Colleagues,

Soil salinization is a serious threat to global crop distribution and yield. Plants have developed complex saline–alkali adaptation mechanisms during their long evolutionary process. Studies on the model plant Arabidopsis, rice, and other representative crops have revealed that plants adapt to salt stress through a variety of strategies, such as enhancing ion and osmotic homeostasis, reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenging, maintaining K⁺ uptake, limiting Na⁺ entry, and increasing Na⁺ exclusion and compartmentalization. An in-depth understanding of the molecular mechanisms of plant saline–alkali responses using molecular genetics and multi-omics approaches will lay a foundation for the molecular design breeding of salt-tolerant crops.

Areas of interest in this Special Issue include: salinity sensing and signaling components, regulation of ROS homeostasis and redox, photosynthetic regulation of salt adaptation, signaling and metabolic networks based on multi-omics, epigenetic chromatin modification of salinity tolerance, post-translational modification of salt stress-responsive kinases, Na⁺ transport and detoxification pathways, cell wall integrity under salt stress, specific salinity responses in crops or trees, spatiotemporal specificity of salt response revealed by single-cell omics, and engineering salt tolerance in crops.

Prof. Dr. Shaojun Dai
Prof. Dr. Chunzhao Zhao
Guest Editors

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• salinity tolerance
• ion transport
• signal transduction
• cell wall integrity
• crops
• trees
• omics
• redox regulation
• post-translational modification