Signaling and Stress Adaptation in Plants
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 December 2024 | Viewed by 70
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Dear Colleagues,
As sessile organisms, plants must cope with environmental stress such as soil salinity, drought, pathogen attack and extreme temperatures. As a result, plant-specific, elaborate mechanisms have evolved to perceive and respond to stress conditions. Currently, stress-signaling pathways involve reactive oxygen/nitrogen species (ROS/RNS), calcium (Ca2+), protein kinases and others. These stress signals and responses are plausibly being revealed to involve crosstalk with energy signaling pathways as any growth-limiting factor alters plant’s energy status. Understanding stress signaling and responses will increase our ability to improve stress resistance in crops to achieve agricultural sustainability and food security for a growing world. However, how plants sense stress signals and adapt to adverse environments are fundamental biological questions.
This Special Issue will focus on studies that highlight recent advances in stress signaling and the adaptative and acclimation mechanisms in response to environmental stimuli in plants, including original research articles and reviews aimed at understanding the molecular mechanisms and physiological roles of stress signals and their interacting systems under stress and non-stress conditions.
Dr. Kangdi Hu
Prof. Dr. Yi Han
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plants
- environmental stress
- stress signaling
- reactive oxygen/nitrogen species
- calcium
- protein kinases
- stress resistance
- adaptive mechanisms
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