Climate Change and Metal Stress on Plants: Potential Impacts and Survival Strategies

A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change".

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Dear Colleagues,

Plants are sensitive and vulnerable to all forms of climate change and environmental pollution. In most cases, pollutants and climate change often result in plant abiotic stress physiology, alter plant metabolism, and make plants vulnerable to pathogen infestation, which causes a reduction in plant growth and consequently globally threatens food security and the ecosystem. Global warming, climate change, and industrial pollution lead to an increase in the frequency, complexity, and intensity of stress situations, thereby impacting plant growth. The response of plants to an individual or a multifactorial stress combination is unique and involves many transcripts and genes. Understanding possible survival strategies under such challenging conditions will be valuable to researchers in botany, agricultural science, and environmental science.

Dr. Chengliang Sun
Dr. Yiquan Ye
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Keywords

  • climate change
  • phytotoxicity
  • metal stress
  • emerging contaminants
  • plant tolerance
  • multifactorial stress combination

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Effects of Boron on the Emergence and Allocation of Metabolic Compounds in Two Herbaceous Cotton Cultivars
by Roberta Possas de Souza, Maycon Anderson de Araujo, Lucas Baltazar Longhi, Isabella Fiorini de Carvalho, Bruno Bonadio Cozin and Liliane Santos de Camargos
Plants 2025, 14(4), 576; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14040576 - 13 Feb 2025
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High boron (B) concentrations in the soil can cause toxic effects to plants, so herbaceous cotton (Gossypium hirsutum latifolium Hucth) is a crop sensitive to such stress. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the emergence, partitioning, and allocation of metabolic compounds of [...] Read more.
High boron (B) concentrations in the soil can cause toxic effects to plants, so herbaceous cotton (Gossypium hirsutum latifolium Hucth) is a crop sensitive to such stress. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the emergence, partitioning, and allocation of metabolic compounds of two herbaceous cotton cultivars subjected to B treatments. The experiment was carried out in a greenhouse, under a completely randomized design in a 2 × 4 factorial scheme, using two cultivars and four concentrations of B in the form of boric acid: 0.5 (control), 30, 60, and 120 mg dm−3 B. The increase in the concentration of B in the soil generated a significant toxic effect on the growth and biomass of the cotton plant. Cultivar 1—TMG 50 WS3 obtained greater emergence and shoot growth, while cultivar 2—FM 911 GLTP invested in roots; however, in both cultivars, B remained accumulated in the shoot. There was an increase in amino acids in the roots and a decrease in proteins and phenolic compounds in leaves and cotyledons. It was concluded that the seedlings presented satisfactory emergence up to 60 mg dm−3 B, and that among the cultivars there are distinct responses to B application. Full article
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