Plant Signal Perception, Transduction, Integration, and Crosstalk

Dear Colleagues,

Plants must be able to respond promptly to a spectrum of stimuli and even anticipate future changes to adapt to and survive in the ever-changing environment. To do that, plants have evolved several signaling pathways interconnected in a complex regulatory network, designed to integrate many environmental signals with intrinsic regulatory circuits, including hormone-mediated regulations. The research performed in the last two decades has revealed the members of individual signaling pathways, hubs mediating their intense crosstalk, feed-forward and feedback regulatory loops, as well as a number of effector molecules. Such effectors are responsible for downstream changes in gene expression profiles, often associated with changes in epigenetic chromatin landscapes, plant proteome composition, and the physicochemical properties of plant bodies.

In this issue, we call for papers from all the fields of plant science studying numerous aspects of signal perception, transduction, and integration. A special focus will be on providing new insights into functionality of well-established signaling pathways, discoveries of surprising connections, and descriptions of novel mechanisms mediating synergistic or additive regulations downstream of individual signaling pathways. We encourage the authors to submit new original findings and new ideas and opinions based on a review of recently published papers.

Dr. Jan Hejatko
Dr. Helene Robert Boisivon
Prof. Dr. Jiří Fajkus
Guest Editors

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• signal perception
• signal transduction
• signal integration
• plant genome
• transcriptome
• proteome
• gene expression
• epigenetic regulations
• cell wall