Role of Microbes in Alleviating Abiotic Stress in Plants

A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change".

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Department of Botany, Institute of Biology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences SGGW, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: plant responses to abiotic stress; legume-rhizobia symbiosis; mycorrhiza; functioning of the host plants and their symbionts under abiotic stress
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Department of Botany, Institute of Biology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences SGGW, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: plant responses to abiotic stress; legume–rhizobia symbiosis; functioning of the host plants and their symbionts under abiotic stress
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Dear Colleagues,

We are accepting submissions for an upcoming /Plants/Special Issue entitled "Role of Microbes in Alleviating Abiotic Stress in Plants".

Abiotic stresses such as excessive watering, extreme temperatures, salinity, drought, and heavy metals are the foremost limiting factors that adversely affect the plant growth development, yield and seed quality. Recently, plant-microbes interactions have emerged as an attractive area of study with potential applications in abiotic stress mitigation in plants. This Special Issue will gather information about plant–microbe interactions under abiotic stress and physiological responses and molecular signaling pathways that are at the basis of these interactions. Topics of interest include but are not limited to plant growth promoting microbes, symbiotic microbes, microbial factors, plant–microbe chemical signaling, gene expression, hormonal control of interactions as well as plant stress responses (stress adaptation, modifications of plant anatomy and the patterns of metabolite contents, stress-responsive genes, physiological responses).

In this Special Issue, different types of manuscripts, including original research papers, perspectives, or reviews, are welcome.

Dr. Marzena Sujkowska-Rybkowska
Dr. Wojciech Borucki
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Keywords

  • plant–microbe interaction
  • abiotic stress
  • plant–microbe symbiosis
  • bacteria
  • fungi
  • prokaryote

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Role of Microbes in Alleviating Crop Drought Stress: A Review
by Zechen Gu, Chengji Hu, Yuxin Gan, Jinyan Zhou, Guangli Tian and Limin Gao
Plants 2024, 13(3), 384; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13030384 - 27 Jan 2024
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Drought stress is an annual global phenomenon that has devastating effects on crop production, so numerous studies have been conducted to improve crop drought resistance. Plant-associated microbiota play a crucial role in crop health and growth; however, we have a limited understanding of [...] Read more.
Drought stress is an annual global phenomenon that has devastating effects on crop production, so numerous studies have been conducted to improve crop drought resistance. Plant-associated microbiota play a crucial role in crop health and growth; however, we have a limited understanding of the key processes involved in microbiome-induced crop adaptation to drought stress. In this review, we summarize the adverse effects of drought stress on crop growth in terms of germination, photosynthesis, nutrient uptake, biomass, and yield, with a focus on the response of soil microbial communities to drought stress and plant-microbe interactions under drought stress. Moreover, we review the morpho-physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms underlying the mitigation effect of microbes on crop drought stress. Finally, we highlight future research directions, including the characterization of specific rhizosphere microbiome species with corresponding root exudates and the efficiency of rhizobacteria inoculants under drought conditions. Such research will advance our understanding of the complex interactions between crops and microbes and improve crop resistance to drought stress through the application of beneficial drought-adaptive microbes. Full article
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