Molecular Regulation of Plant Stress Responses
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: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 403
Special Issue Editors
Interests: epigenetics; plant small RNA; non-coding RNA; plant genomics; gene expression regulation; genome editing; plant molecular biology; plant stress response
Interests: plant genomics; epigenetics; plant small RNA
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants are sessile organisms which are subjected to constantly changing environments that can generate unfavorable or stressful situations for plant growth, development, and productivity. In recent years, enormous progress has been made in understanding molecular regulation in response to diverse environmental stimuli, including in response to biotic and abiotic stresses. The analysis of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and epigenomics can assist us in gaining insights on the molecular mechanisms behind plant interactions with environmental stress. Understanding the molecular basis of how plants perceive, transduce, and respond to these stresses is crucial for developing strategies to enhance crop resilience and productivity.
We invite original research articles and reviews on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Signal Transduction Pathways: Molecular pathways involved in stress signal perception and transduction.
- Gene Regulation: Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of stress-responsive genes.
- Epigenetics: Epigenetic modifications influencing stress responses.
- Hormonal Crosstalk: Roles of plant hormones in mediating stress responses.
- Proteomics and Metabolomics: Stress-induced changes in the proteome and metabolome.
- Stress Adaptation Mechanisms: Genetic and molecular bases of stress tolerance and adaptation.
- Plant-Microbe Interactions: Molecular dynamics of plant interactions with beneficial and pathogenic microbes under stress conditions.
- Technological Advances: Novel techniques and approaches for studying plant stress responses at the molecular level.
Dr. Flávia Thiebaut
Dr. Clicia Grativol
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant stress response
- non-coding RNA
- biotic stress
- abiotic stress
- crop resilience
- adaptation and acclimation
- gene regulation
- plant epigenetics
- environmental stress
