Plant Regulomics: Briding Transcriptional and Translational Events for Ecological Adaptation

Dear Colleagues,

Plants play an important role, as food in the form of crops, and also in understanding environmental stress fluctuations. High throughput sequencing approaches have widely unravel the link between transcriptional and post-transcriptional changes at genotypic, ecotypic and phenotypic level. Several emerging technologies, such as RNA-seq, smallRNAs-seq, ribosome-mRNA-seq, metabolomics, phospho-proteomics, and single cell transcriptomics, have played major roles in defining the transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory events in response to environmental fluctuations or in understanding the plant system biology. Corollary to the rise in the sequencing-based technologies, parallel development of high throughput bioinformatics and application of network-based approaches have revealed wide diversity of mRNA populations, not only at the transcriptional level, but also at the post-transcriptional and translational level. In addition to the mRNA population diversity, considerable knowledge has been obtained to understand sequence features that contribute to proteome diversity including the role of exons and introns in splicing-derived alternative transcript abundance. In plant especially crops, such diversity of transcriptional, post-transcriptional and translational is plentiful, as most of model plants especially crop genomes are polyploids and show neo-functionalization events as a result of ancient paleoploidy. In this Special Issue, we invite papers, either research or review articles, which contribute to the understanding of functional responses in plants and elucidate the mechanism that regulate functional diversity, either at the genotypic/phenotypic or ecotypic levels. This Special Issue widely invites papers related to the identification of new and differentially regulated genes and pathways under abiotic and biotic stress through the application of RNA-seq, smallRNAs-seq, ribosome-mRNA-seq, metabolomics, phospho-proteomics, and or single cell transcriptomics, which will help to understand the genomic basis of plant adaptation to climate change.

Dr. Gaurav Sablok
Guest Editor

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• mRNA
• RNA-seq
• Ribosome-mRNA-seq
• Metabolomics
• Phospho-proteomics
• Single cell transcriptomics
• Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation
• Alternative splicing
• Ecotypic and genotypic diversity