Gene Expression and Molecular Effects in Plants under Abiotic Stress
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Genetics, Genomics and Breeding".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 March 2024) | Viewed by 3339
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant science; molecular biology; abiotic stress; gene expression; RNA sequencing; omics-analysis; epigenetics; co-expression analysis; SNP; GWAS
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Interests: plant stress biology; plant pathology; biosensors; live cell imaging; and biotechnology applications
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants are often challenged by abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, high temperature and so on. The exposure of plants to abiotic stresses causes the activation of hormones, signaling cascades, transcription factors, and downstream responses. Mostly, multiple genes are responsible for controlling abiotic stress responses. Recent advances in molecular biology and genomics have begun to provide detailed clues about molecular processes behind these responses. The identification of candidate genes, small RNAs, and metabolic pathways that involved in abiotic stress responses through transcriptomic, epigenomic, and proteomic analysis and/or validation by reverse genetics (CRISPR-Cas9) or overexpression has generated a lot of knowledge in this area.
The scope of this Special Issue is to summarize the knowledge in molecular mechanisms behind these abiotic stresses. Authors are invited to submit original research articles, communication papers, reviews papers, related to but not limited to the following suggested topics:
- Genes and gene network involved in abiotic stress responses;
- Transcriptomic or proteomic analysis to find out genes related to abiotic stress;
- Functional genomics in the abiotic stress response;
- Genome-wide identification of abiotic-stress-responsive gene families;
- Co-expression network analysis (WGCNA, clust and so on) to identify gene modules underlying the abiotic stress response;
- Small RNAs in abiotic stress responses;
- GWAS to identify genetic factors associated with abiotic stresses;
- Epigenetic mechanisms (DNA, histone, and RNA methylation) behind abiotic stresses.
Dr. Harshraj Shinde
Dr. Ulhas Sopanrao Kadam
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- abiotic stress
- crop plants
- gene editing
- genomics
- transcriptomics
- next generation sequencing
- plant physiology
- gene co-expression analysis
- epigenetics
- small RNAs
- gene families
- molecular markers
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