Mechanisms and Regulation of Hormone Transport in Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 1806
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plant hormones, or phytohormones, are essential chemical messengers that regulate a wide range of physiological and developmental processes in plants as well as in non-plant organisms. The members of different hormone classes have diverse and overlapping roles in growth, development and response to environmental cues, but a common feature is that their local or long-distance transport is crucial to ensure that the hormones reach their target tissues and exert their local effects.
Recent research has identified a large number of plant hormone transporters from different classes (such as ATP-binding cassette (ABC), MATE, PIN (PIN) and NITRATE TRANSPORTER 1/PEPTIDE TRANSPORTER FAMILY (NPF)), each with specific functions and expression patterns. In addition, the scientific community has invested considerable energy into unravelling their individual and overlapping roles, interactions and modes of regulation at the transport and expression levels.
In this context, we invite contributions to this Special Issue from all disciplines that aid in understanding the fascinating process of phytohormone transport. This includes the individual roles of phytohormone transporters, their transport mechanisms, their regulation, as well as their interplay. We particularly welcome work from crop plants and beyond the classical model plants, with a special focus on plant–microbe interactions. As such, this issue aims to advance our understanding of phytohormone transport, which may provide the basis for improving crop yields, developing new plant biotechnologies and protecting the environment.
Markus Geisler
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- phytohormone
- hormone transport
- auxin
- abscisic acid
- cytokinins
- brassinosteroids
- gibberelins
- ABC transporter
- PINs
- NPF
- MATE
