Special Issue "Crop Responses to Abiotic Stress and Genetic Research"

Dear Colleagues,

Due to climate change, various abiotic stresses, including heat, drought, cold stress, nutritional deficiencies, and chemical toxicity, have become a major challenge for crop productivity.

Through millennia-long evolution, plants have developed adaptability strategies that enable them to respond to various environmental signals by adjusting or manipulating genetic regulatory mechanisms, which allow them to cope with unfavourable conditions. Therefore, a deeper understanding of the genetic mechanisms and gene networks underlying plant stress response could be of great significance for the breeding of climate-resilient crops.

This Special Issue, entitled “Crop Responses to Abiotic Stress and Genetic Research”, will focus on the genetic regulation of plant responses to extreme heat and cold temperatures, drought, salinity, nutrient limitations, and ultraviolet stress, and on the epigenetic mechanisms of stress memory. This Special Issue will highlight the role of genetic variation in the adaption of crops to abiotic stress and its possible applications in breeding climate-resilient crop varieties. We welcome the submission of all types of articles, such as original research and review papers.

Dr. Rita Armoniené
Guest Editor

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• abiotic stress
• adaptation
• breeding
• climate resilience
• DNA methylation
• epigenetic variation
• histone modification
• small RNA