Physiological and Molecular Responses for Stress Tolerance in Rice

Dear Colleagues,

Rice is one of the most important staple foods worldwide and feeds more than half of the world’s population. However, as the climate changes and the environment deteriorates, rice production is faced with more and more challenges. Common abiotic stresses, such as drought, salinity, flooding, chilling, heavy metal contamination, etc., are threatening the rice growth and yields. It is a crop in urgent need of means with which to cope with the stresses and reduce yield loss. Thus, we are collecting new findings regarding the physiological and molecular responses to stress tolerance in rice, which may contribute to cultivating stress-resistant rice varieties. This Special Issue of Plants aims to publish papers studying the following topics in rice: stress signal transduction, stress-regulated gene functions, phytohormones involved in stress response, and rice breeding for stress resistance.

Dr. Yanjie Li
Guest Editor

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• abiotic stress tolerance
• stress signal transduction
• stress-regulated genes
• phytohormones
• rice breeding