Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Biostimulants
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 May 2024 | Viewed by 3343
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant ecophysiology; biotic stress; abiotic stress; photosynthesis; antioxidative mechanisms; photoprotective mechanisms; mineral nutrition; ROS
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Interests: plant physiology; biological pesticides; plant-based fertilizers; plant-insect-microbe interactions
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plant biostimulants constitute an emerging class of agricultural inputs that help to improve crop yield and quality since their application also protects from biotic and abiotic stresses. Large categories of biostimulants are used as plant growth promoters (PGPs), such as arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), plant-growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB), micro-macroalgae, composted materials, humic substances, protein hydrolysates, chitosan, plant extracts, chemical molecules such as salicylic acid (SA) and melatonin, and nanoparticles. Today, there is a need to improve the current crop productivity to meet the increasing food demands. Among the current methodologies proposed to increase plant resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses, the utilization of plant biostimulants in crop production has recently been proposed. The optimization of their utilization has great potential in an innovative and sustainable agriculture context, providing benefits to plant growth and health through increases in nutrient uptake, photosynthesis and secondary metabolism, conferring plant tolerance to environmental stresses and improving resistance to biotic factors.
This Issue will focus on the molecular mechanisms by which plant biostimulants act on plant growth and development, water relations, ion uptake, photosynthesis, and related physiological processes to changes in metabolism.
Authors are invited and welcome to submit original research papers, reviews, and short communications that will contribute to our understanding on the biology and the use of biostimulants to promote plant growth and enhance crop yields while reducing the use of chemical fertilizers under biotic or abiotic stress conditions but also under non-stress conditions.
Prof. Dr. Michael Moustakas
Dr. Julietta Moustaka
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biostimulants
- abiotic stresses
- biotic stresses
- plant growth promoter
- stress acclimation
- oxidative damage
- photosynthetic efficiency
- ROS
- antioxidant mechanisms
- redox regulation