Photosynthetic Metabolism under Stressful Growth 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: closed (30 April 2020) | Viewed by 55169
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Interests: climate change; cereals; N2 fixers; resource use efficiency; photosynthesis; stable isotopes; sustainable agriculture; yield and quality traits
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Interests: agronomy; elevated CO2; elevated temperature; grapevine biology; photosynthesis; plant adaptation to climate change; plant nutrition; plant physiology; plant stress physiology; water stress.
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Dear Colleagues,
Increased periods of water shortage and higher temperatures, together with a reduction in nutrient availability, have been proposed as major factors that negatively impact plant development. Indeed, photosynthesis has been selected as a target for crop phenotyping/breeding studies. Photosynthetic CO2 assimilation is the basis of crop production for animal and human food. Within this context, the knowledge of the mechanisms involved in the response and acclimation of photosynthetic CO2 assimilation to multiple changing environmental conditions (including nutrients, water availability, and rising temperature) is a matter of great concern for the understanding of plant behavior under stress conditions, and for the development of new strategies and tools for enhancing plant growth in the future. The current Special Issue of Plants aims to analyze, from a multi-perspective approach (ranging from gas exchange, metabolomics, proteomics, genomics, etc.), the performance of photosynthetic apparatus (and consequently plant growth) within stressful growth conditions.
Dr. Iker Aranjuelo
Dr. Fermin Morales
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- abiotic stress
- photosynthesis
- plant development
- plant growth
- plant metabolism
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