Gene Regulation Mechanisms in Plants under Abiotic Stress
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: closed (15 April 2023) | Viewed by 2014
Special Issue Editors
Interests: explainable AI on omics and Image data; integrative multi-omics; single-cell analysis; deep learning
Interests: the analysis of molecular markers for characterization of plant DNA diversity; the identification and the functional analysis of genes involved in powdery mildew; the molecular mechanisms of response to abiotic stresses (drought and high temperatures); the genome editing using the CRISPR/Cas9 technology.
Interests: plant tissue culture; plant biotechnology; plant physiology; plant biology; agricultural biotechnology; plant breeding; abiotic stress tolerance; plant molecular biology; plant environmental stress physiology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The dynamic and partial drastic changes of the environment related to climate change have intensified or even changed abiotic stresses, with massive effects on the growth and development of plants. Rapid responses of the plant cell metabolism and adaptation to gene regulation machinery are key factors for the survival of plants in a fluctuating environment. Especially, holistic and global approaches using omics can help to obtain a deeper understanding of gene regulatory mechanisms at the molecular level. Related to abiotic stressors such as heat and drought or even anthropogenic abiotic stressors such as microgravity, plants have to overcome dynamically changing environmental conditions based on their sessile lifestyle. In addition to the importance of specific single-level regulatory mechanisms, multilevel regulation responses and their interconnection are especially important to obtain insights into differing gene regulation related to stress regimes. This can lead to cross-stress tolerance or be used for the priming of plants. The integration of multi-omics approaches helps to identify high dimensional biomarker patterns on a genome-wide scale. Based on such datasets, signaling and regulatory networks can be created, leading to key player identification in specific abiotic stressors as well as general stress responses. Furthermore, single omics analyses are useful to understand adaptation of the plant at a spatial and temporal level.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Simm
Dr. Paolo Iovieno
Dr. Pedro Alfonso Sansberro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- integrative omics
- multi-omics
- abiotic stress in plants
- ncRNA regulation
- gene regulatory mechanisms
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