Redox Regulation of Plant Growth and Development
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921). This special issue belongs to the section "ROS, RNS and RSS".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 856
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant tissue culture; plant breeding; plants; plant biology; plant genetics; stress mitigation
Interests: secondary plant metabolites; map-ping of mechanism of action in in vitro cell culture; in vivo animal experiments; antioxidant defense system
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Changes in cellular redox homeostasis affect plant growth and development and play a key role in plant stress management. Elimination of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS and RNS) produced by either environmental stress conditions or during the growth and developmental processes (internal stresses) occurs primarily through the ascorbate–glutathione pathway. However, melatonin, being at the heart of the redox network, is involved in the regulation of various molecular, biochemical, cellular, and physiological responses. Growth and development, as well as stress mitigation in plants, are redox regulated due to the cooperation between the cellular redox signaling and phytohormone signaling networks. Treatments affecting the redox state of the plant, such as exogenous application of melatonin, various antioxidants, or other chemicals, may act on stress mitigation, causing various biochemical and physiological and even gene regulatory changes. Their application therefore has great potential in alleviating and managing plant stress, even in the field.
This Special Issue, “Redox Regulation of Plant Growth and Development”, welcomes original research articles, reviews, and communications on antioxidant regulation of plant development and stress mitigation at different levels of research, such as gene expression, epigenetics, biochemistry, and physiology.
Dr. Judit Dobránszki
Dr. Judit Remenyik
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant biology
- ascorbate
- free-radical scavenging
- glutathione
- heat shock proteins
- melatonin
- oxidative stress
- plant growth and development
- redox homeostasis
- RNP
- ROS
- plant stress mitigation
- plant stress adaptation
- transcription factors
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