Role of Auxin in Plant Growth and Development
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Development and Morphogenesis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 12891
Special Issue Editor
Interests: auxin signaling; transmembrane kinases; post-translational modification; plant cell fate; plant development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Auxin is considered one of the most important plant hormones and has attracted intense research interest in recent decades. Auxin metabolism and signal transduction are implicated in wide-ranging aspects of plant development and responses to environmental cues.
Sessile plants in nature have developed complex strategies to adapt their growth and development to changing and challenging environments. The trade-off between growth and defense provides an optimal strategy for the life history of angiosperm plants. Plants deal with extreme environmental conditions normally at the expense of growth, or expedite the growth in favorable conditions through suppression of stress responses. This suggests that developmental regulation in plants is tightly linked with environmental conditions; however, the mechanisms involving the mutual dependence between growth and the environment are far from being fully understood. Auxin, as a growth hormone in plants, regulates nearly all aspects of growth and development in a concentration-dependent manner. It has been widely reported that auxin participates in the regulation of plant development in response to environmental cues, such as light and temperature. Recent studies showed that auxin also plays essential roles in many stress responses, such as salinity and drought responses. Nevertheless, it still remains to be elucidated how environmental cues regulate plant growth via auxin metabolism and signal transduction, and also how auxin signaling participates in environmental responses through crosstalk with other signaling mechanisms. Further insights into these questions would provide new strategies to aid in crop breeding, by manipulating the growth and defense trade-offs in plants.
To illustrate the recent mechanisms of auxin regulation of the crosstalk between plants and environments, this Special Issue welcomes the submission of manuscripts including original research, brief research reports, and review articles in (but not limited to) the following areas:
- New regulatory mechanisms of auxin metabolism and transport by environmental cues;
- The transcriptional and non-transcriptional regulation of auxin signaling components by environmental cues;
- Auxin regulation of environmental responses through crosstalk with other signaling pathways;
- Applied research concerning the growth and defense trade-off controlled by auxin in crops;
- Co-evolution of auxin signaling and environmental responses in plants.
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- auxin transport
- auxin metabolism
- auxin signaling
- environmental adaptation
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