Mastering Hormone Regulation to Boost Crop Resilience against Climate Change
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant-Crop Biology and Biochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 96
Special Issue Editors
Interests: secondary metabolites; antioxidants; abiotic stress; sustainable agriculture
Interests: abiotic stress; oxidative stress; phytohormones; secondary metabolites; senescence
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Domestication and traditional breeding practices have significantly reduced crop genetic diversity, leading to higher susceptibility to environmental stresses. Given the ongoing and anticipated impacts of climate change, it is crucial to develop biological and technological solutions to enhance crop resilience, ensuring food security. Plant hormones play a key role in plant acclimation to environmental stress. While efforts have been made to breed crops with improved stress tolerance through hormone regulation, these often result in yield reductions. However, under mild stress conditions, productivity has sometimes increased. Hormone regulatory networks that adjust gene expression in response to developmental and environmental signals are complex, varying between species and across spatial and temporal scales.
This Special Issue aims to uncover the mechanisms of hormonal regulation in crop species under environmental stress and identify sustainable crop management techniques in a changing climate. We welcome reviews and research papers at metabolite and gene levels in crops, highlighting new roles of plant hormones under environmental stress; new interactions and feedback loops among hormones, including local and/or systematic plant hormone communication under stress conditions; breeding programs that enhance hormone regulation leading to improved stress tolerance and resilience; and the identification of new regulatory factors in hormone signaling. We also encourage studies on traditional and/or local crop cultivars.
Dr. Marina Pérez-Llorca
Dr. Maren Müller
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- crop resilience
- hormonal regulation
- environmental stress
- climate change adaptation
- sustainable agriculture
