Plant Stress Tolerance: Physiological, Molecular and Genetic Perspectives

A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Genetics, Genomics and Breeding".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2023) | Viewed by 2009

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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh
Interests: plant abiotic stress physiology; high-throughput phenotyping; quantitative genetics; genome-wide association analysis; functional characterization of genes and molecular breeding

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Professor and Director, Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Bangabanhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur 1706, Bangladesh
Interests: genomics; resistance gene; CRISPR-Cas genome editing; antioxidants; mutagenesis
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Dear Colleagues,

Plants are sessile organisms and might be exposed to sub-optimal biotic and abiotic growing conditions during their life cycles. Therefore, terrestrial plants make morphological, physiological and molecular adjustments to avoid or tolerate stress conditions. 

Therefore, this Special Issue in Agriculture targets the collection of recent innovations in the field of plants’ (crops or model species) response to abiotic (drought, flooding, nutrient toxicity or deficiency, salinity, heat or cold) and biotic stress (microbes, herbivores, weeds).

The Special Issue targets (is not limited to) the following areas:

  1. genetic mapping (linkage or association mapping) to identify the genetic loci and genes associated with the stress response;
  2. the evaluation of mutant lines (genome editing, ectopic expression, physical or chemical mutagenesis) under stress conditions;
  3. the morphological or physiological evaluation of breeding lines or diverse germplasms under different growing environments and stress scenarios;
  4. meta-analysis using genomics data (transcriptome profiling, genomic prediction, comparative genomics) related to the stress response.

Therefore, we encourage original research articles and review papers covering the above-mentioned topics.

Dr. Md. Nurealam Siddiqui
Prof. Dr. Tofazzal Islam
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Keywords

  • plant biochemistry
  • plant physiology
  • abiotic stress physiology
  • genetic mapping
  • quantitative genetics
  • genome-wide association analysis
  • genomics
  • resistance gene
  • antioxidants
  • mutagenesis
  • CRISPR-Cas genome editing

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Advances in Crop Genetic Improvement to Overcome Drought Stress: Bibliometric and Meta-Analysis
by Patrícia Ferreira da Silva, Natália Cassa, Alberto Soares de Melo, José Dantas Neto, Luana Aparecida Menegaz Meneghetti, Alisson Silva Costa Custódio, Niclene Ponce Rodrigues de Oliveira, Tonny José Araújo da Silva, Edna Maria Bonfim-Silva, Sérgio Plens Andrade, Thiago Franco Duarte, Sávio da Silva Berilli, Maurício Novaes Souza, Aparecida de Fátima Madella de Oliveira, Monique Moreira Moulin and Ana Paula Candido Gabriel Berilli
Agriculture 2023, 13(10), 1860; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13101860 - 22 Sep 2023
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Plant resistance to drought stress is a parameter that should be studied with more emphasis in the search for higher agricultural yields. In this scenario, research within breeding programs should be directed toward specific mechanisms of action and important agricultural crops in worldwide [...] Read more.
Plant resistance to drought stress is a parameter that should be studied with more emphasis in the search for higher agricultural yields. In this scenario, research within breeding programs should be directed toward specific mechanisms of action and important agricultural crops in worldwide agribusiness. From this perspective, this study carried out a bibliographic investigation regarding the advances in genetic improvement aimed at drought stress in crops using a hybrid model of analysis of scientific articles. The analysis employed bibliometric parameters for qualitative and quantitative discussion of scientific production and the methodological process of systematic review for the synthesis of the results obtained. The work was divided into four stages: the search for articles in databases, meta-analysis, bibliometric analysis, and systematic analysis. Scientific articles were searched for on the Scopus, Scielo, and Web of Science databases within a 20-year timeframe. Most authors and institutions were from Asian countries, demonstrating the need for global expansion of research on the subject. With regard to the co-occurrence networks between the keywords used in the search, a focus was observed on the following terms: drought resistance, drought stress; drought, and drought tolerance. Evidently, the primary mechanism of tolerance or even resistance studied in breeding programs is associated with the expression of genes and genetically modified organisms that confer resistance to plants. Also, the crops addressed in the research retrieved are highly diverse. Full article
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