Stress Response, Development, and Quality Regulation in Horticultural Plants

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, the increasing frequency of extreme weather events and the degradation of agricultural ecosystems have posed formidable challenges to horticultural crop production. On the one hand, abiotic stresses such as drought, high temperatures, low temperatures, salinity, waterlogging, low light, nutrient deficiencies, and heavy metals, as well as biotic stresses caused by pests and diseases, severely impact the growth, development, and sustainable advancement of the horticultural industry. On the other hand, there is a growing public desire for a higher quality of life, which has led to an increasing appreciation of horticulture as a means of enhancing daily living. Particularly, the rising demand for superior-quality horticultural products has spurred research into the regulatory mechanisms underlying the formation of quality traits, including shape, color, texture, flavor, and aroma.

Horticultural plants comprise a diverse family of plants, including fruit trees, vegetables, ornamental plants, flowering plants, tea and beverage plants, aromatic plants, medicinal plants, and more. Focus on these target plants by integrating high-throughput multi-omics technologies and computational biology approaches to identify the key genes involved in stress responses, development, and quality trait formation, which will help researchers provide a scientific foundation or cues for breeding novel, high-quality horticultural varieties. Research articles, reviews, short notes, and opinion articles focused on the application of genetic, physiological, molecular, and multi-omics aspects to various horticultural plants are welcome to our current Special Issue on “Stress Response, Development, and Quality Regulation in Horticultural Plants”.

Dr. Jun Tang
Dr. Guo Wei
Dr. Tianyuan Yang
Guest Editors

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• horticultural plants
• abiotic and biotic stresses
• growth and development
• quality regulation
• gene expression analysis
• multi-omics
• physiological and molecular mechanisms