Response of Woody Plants to Adverse Environmental and Weather Conditions
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2025 | Viewed by 148
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Interests: forest genetics; tree breeding; embryology; environmental stress and adaptive genes; comparative and population genomics; genome breeding; plant molecular systematics and phylogeny
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Dear Colleagues,
Woody plants, encompassing trees, shrubs, and other perennial woody species, are integral to terrestrial ecosystems, providing habitat, food, and climate regulation. They exhibit remarkable adaptability to a spectrum of environmental and weather conditions, ranging from arid deserts to lush rainforests. This resilience is attributed to a suite of physiological, morphological, and biochemical strategies that enable them to cope with adverse factors such as drought, extreme temperatures, and high salinity. The response of woody plants to these challenges involves complex mechanisms, including but not limited to, the regulation of water uptake and loss, the production of protective compounds, and the alteration of growth patterns. Unlike other plants, woody plants such as trees have unique features such as annual wood growth that reflects climatic conditions, and by measuring annual tree ring growth, the individual responses of trees to environmental factors and stresses can be measured and be associated with individual genotypes. This promotes such new approaches to study genetic mechanisms of adaptation as dendrogenomics, which integrates dendrochronology, dendroecology, dendroclimatology, and genomics.
This Special Issue will explore how woody plants adapt to stressors such as drought, extreme temperatures, and altered precipitation patterns. It will also discuss the physiological, morphological, and genetic mechanisms that enable these plants to survive and thrive in challenging conditions. Studying these adaptive responses is crucial for understanding ecosystem dynamics, predicting the impacts of climate change, and informing conservation strategies to safeguard these vital organisms in the face of environmental perturbations.
Prof. Dr. Konstantin V. Krutovsky
Prof. Dr. Igor A. Yakovlev
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- adaptive genes
- climate change
- dendrochronology
- dendroecology
- dendroclimatology
- dendrogenomics
- environmental stress
- forest ecology
- silviculture
- tree improvement and breeding
- woody plant
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