Advances in Plant Saline-Alkali Stress
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 86
Special Issue Editor
Interests: mining and utilization of plant stress-resistant germplasm resources; physiology and molecular biology of plant stress resistance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Globally, approximately 950 million hectares of land are affected by soil salinization and alkalization, posing significant abiotic stressors that adversely impact plant growth, development, and overall agricultural productivity. In response to these saline-alkali stress conditions, plants exhibit a range of physiological adaptations, encompassing ion balance regulation, osmotic modulation, and antioxidant defenses. Over the course of evolution, plants have evolved intricate self-regulatory mechanisms to withstand saline-alkali stress, wherein plant hormones and transcription factors play an important role. Notably, abscisic acid (ABA) triggers a cascade of signaling events that facilitate adaptive responses, critical in modulating plant growth, developmental processes, and environmental stress tolerance.
It is of great significance to understand the physiological and molecular mechanisms of plant adaptation to saline-alkali stress and explore new methods to improve plant saline-alkali tolerance, including the application of exogenous substances, molecular breeding techniques, and genetic modulation.
This Special Issue aims to provide a platform for molecular research on plant saline-alkali stress, with a special focus on the mechanisms of stress tolerance and potential enhancement strategies. We believe that this Special Issue will be helpful to researchers and for the improvement of plants’ tolerance to saline-alkali stress in the future. We welcome your submission of original papers and reviews containing molecular results.
This Special Issue is supervised by Prof. Dr. Zhengwei Liang and assisted by our Guest Editor’ assistant editor Dr. Zhonghui Feng <[email protected]> (College of Life Science, Baicheng Normal University, Baicheng 137000, China).
Dr. Zhengwei Liang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- saline-alkali stress
- plant physiology changes
- stress tolerance
- stress signaling pathways
- genetic regulation
- plant hormones
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