Omics Studies for Stress Responses and Adaptive Evolution in Plants

Dear Colleagues,

Extreme environments and the increasingly fluctuating climate pose major threats to the growth and development of plants. Accordingly, plants have evolved remarkable physiological and metabolic characteristics that play essential roles in their adaptation to external stresses. A comprehensive understanding of the regulatory mechanisms underlying these processes will open avenues for elucidating plants’ resistance to the alterations that the global environment is currently undergoing. The development of high-throughput technologies, pan-genomic, transcriptomic and metabonomic studies will allow us to dissect the crucial molecular factors, including the genomic loci, pathways and metabolites, and their dynamics, that underlie plant adaptation to environmental stimuli. The novel findings of these studies will offer new insights into resources for genetic engineering with the aim of improving plant stress resistance.

This Special Issue will mainly focus on studies applying omics technologies to explore the molecular mechanisms of plant acclimation to environmental stress, including, but not limited to, the genomic basis of plant adaptive traits, and the transcriptional, post-transcriptional and/or metabolic dynamics in response to abiotic and/or biotic stresses. Therefore, we welcome original research and review articles that are relevant to the following categories of interest:

• Overview of and perspectives on the molecular mechanisms underlying plant adaptation to environmental stress.
• Explorations of the transcriptional, post-transcriptional and/or metabolic dynamics underlying plant resistance to abiotic and/or biotic stresses.
• Multi-omics studies and their applications in studies of plant environmental adaptation.
• The limitations and challenges of, as well as perspectives on, current efforts in pan-genomics in studies of plant adaptation will be collectively discussed.

Dr. Yuchen Yang
Guest Editor

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• adaptive evolution
• phenotypic plasticity
• genome sequencing
• genome evolution
• transcriptional regulation
• epigenomics
• proteomics
• metabolomics
• integrative analysis
• single-cell assays