Advances in Aquatic Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Physiology and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: genomics; evolution; epigenetics; gene regulation
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Interests: submerged photosynthesis; plant physiology; aquatic toxicology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aquatic plants are a polyphyletic group of plants, such as the sacred lotus, water lily, and seagrass, that have evolved to adapt to aquatic environments. In this Issue, we refer specifically to aquatic plants such as hydrophytes or macrophytes and exclude certain plant groups, including algae and other microphytes. Aquatic plants are typically classified into emergent, submergent, or floating plants. They play a crucial role in the ecosystem, providing habitats, oxygen, and food for aquatic animals. Even though they are essential to the ecosystem, aquatic plants have been relatively less studied than their terrestrial counterparts due to many reasons (such as the difficulty of laboratory growth and sampling).
Due to the dramatic differences in physical and chemical properties between the air and water, aquatic plants change their morphology (such as whorled, dissected whorled, dissected, linear, linear strap-like, and filiform leaves), anatomic structure (such as aerenchyma, epidermal cells containing chloroplasts, the simple structure of leaves, and lacking mechanical tissue), and physiology (such as low light adaptation, bicarbonate use, C4-like pathway, and CAM photosynthesis), thus adapting to aquatic environments.
In this Issue, we focus on the evolutionary, genomic, physiological, and ecological studies of aquatic plants, hoping to uncover how this diverse polyphyletic group interacts with and adapts to the aquatic environment.
Guest Editor
Dr. Tao Shi
Dr. Hongsheng Jiang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- aquatic plant
- comparative genomics
- population genetics
- morphological adaptation
- physiological study
- aquatic ecology
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