Plant Physiology and Molecular Nutrition: 2nd Edition
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: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 19
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant nutritional signaling and responses; redox homeostasis in plant cells; nitrate reductase biochemistry; ethylene signaling; circadian clock; photosynthetic and respiratory adapations to nutritional stresses
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Interests: physiological and molecular mechanisms for the uptake, translocation, distribution, accumulation and detoxification of mineral elements in plants; breeding for new crop varieties with more safety, rich nutrition, high resilience, and environmental friendliness
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
To cope with nutritional deficiency or overload, plants develop both cellular and molecular responses. The mechanisms behind these adaptations are not totally understood, but some hormones (especially auxin, ethylene, gibberellins, abscisic acid, etc.) and signaling substances (microRNAs, NO, free radicals, NADPH, etc.) have been implicated. To confer specificity to each nutrient deficiency, hormones and signaling substances should interact in a specific way, or they could act through multiple signaling pathways.
Outlining the genetic regulatory mechanisms for nutrient uptake, accumulation, and distribution in plants will make it possible to develop ideal future plants harboring higher usage efficiency of nutrient elements in order to adapt to changeable environments. It would be helpful to excavate germplasms as well as candidate functional genes and provide new insights into understanding the mechanisms of plant nutritional physiology.
This Special Issue is led by Prof. Dr. Shu Yuan and assisted by our Topical Advisory Panel Member Dr. Guijie Lei (Yunnan University). Papers submitted to this Special Issue must report novel results, new regulation working models, and the latest findings related to the regulation of nutrient signaling responses, mainly focused on new gene (or QTL) identification, new nutrient signaling pathways, the interactions among hormones or gene regulation networks to confer specificity to nutritional responses, and the crosstalk between environmental stress and nutritional responses.
Additional topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Nutrient signaling pathways and regulatory mechanisms.
- Interaction between hormones and nutrition.
- Molecular mechanisms of nutrient absorption and transport.
- Effects of nutrient deficiency and excess on plant physiology and biochemistry.
- Plant adaptation mechanisms to environmental stress.
- Genetic improvement of plant utilization of nutrients.
Volume I of the Special Issue: “Plant Physiology and Molecular Nutrition”.
Prof. Dr. Shu Yuan
Prof. Dr. Guijie Lei
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant nutritional physiology
- nutrient signaling
- phytohormones
- gene regulation network
- environment and nutrition crosstalk
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