Evolution of Environmental Adaptation in Plants
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 1971
Special Issue Editor
Interests: evolution of abiotic stress resistance; plant metabolic diversity
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Dear Colleagues,
Plants live in diverse environments that are often unsuitable or stressful for their growth. Abiotic stresses, such as extreme climatic (e.g., heat, drought, flood, etc.) and adverse soil conditions (salinity, soil acidification, nutrient deficiency, etc.), pose severe constraints on crop growth and yield formation. As sessile organisms, plants are incapable of moving freely when exposed to various abiotic stresses. Hence, they deal with adverse environments via a series of physiological, cellular, and molecular responses. A vast number of studies have been carried out to investigate the stress tolerance/resistance mechanisms in a single or a small number of plant species. However, questions arise regarding when and how plants evolve adaptive mechanisms in response to environmental stresses. This Special Issue entitled “Evolution of Environmental Adaptation in Plants” will cover but not be limited to the following topics:
- Identification of genes, proteins, and metabolites participating in environmental adaptation;
- Unraveling the evolutionary mechanisms of stress tolerance/resistance in land plants and algae;
- Characterization of elite genes resources in wild relatives, and utilization of elite genes in crop improvement.
Dr. Shengguan Cai
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- abiotic stress
- adaptive mechanism
- evolution
- gene function
- tolerance/resistance mechanism
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