MicroRNA Mediated Responses to Environmental Stress in Crop Plants
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 March 2022) | Viewed by 4250
Special Issue Editor
Interests: RNA biology; RNA silencing; small RNA biology; microRNAs; environmental stress; molecular breeding; agricultural biotechnology
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Dear Colleagues,
Plant microRNAs (miRNAs) were initially viewed as masters regulators of gene expression throughout all phases of plant development. However, it is now readily apparent that miRNA-mediated gene expression regulation also occupies a central role in the molecular alterations required by a plant to respond to environmental stress, be it an abiotic stress such as salinity or drought, or a biotic form of stress such as providing a defensive response against an invading pathogen. Currently, the development of new crop species with enhanced resistance to environmental stress while also providing elevated quality characteristics and yield potential is of paramount importance to attempt to address the ever-increasing worldwide demand for crop production. Considering the central role played by miRNA-mediated alterations to gene expression as part of the highly complex and interrelated molecular responses required by a plant to respond to environmental stress, documentation of miRNA abundance changes, or altered miRNA target gene expression, forms a fundamental first step in the development of new crop cultivars to meet the future food production demands of a growing global population.
Thus, for this Special Issue of Agronomy, I invite primary research articles or literature reviews on miRNA-mediated responses to any form of environmental stress, and in any crop species of interest. I am especially interested in the submission of research articles which shed additional light on the actual biological mechanisms behind the molecular responses mediated by a specific miRNA and/or its target gene transcripts in crop plants to environmental stress.
Dr. Andrew Eamens
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- small RNAs
- microRNAs
- gene expression regulation
- environmental stress adaptation
- crop plants
- molecular breeding
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