Advances in Environmental Stress Biology: From Omics Approaches—2nd Edition
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2025 | Viewed by 99
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Forage crop; QTL; GWAS; molecular breeding; agronomic trait
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Interests: molecular biology; exploitation of stress resistant germplasms and genes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The growth and development of plants are limited by various abiotic and biotic stresses. The most common abiotic stresses are water stress (deficit and excess water), temperature stress (heat and cold), ionic stress (salinity, nutrient deficiency and heavy metal) and biotic stresses (pathogens, pests, and weeds). Climate change is predicted to increase the occurrence of extreme weather events and thus also abiotic stresses. In recent years, strategies that improve plant tolerance and minimize the effects of abiotic stresses on growth and development have been actively studied.
Recent advances in the application of omics technologies can reveal the interactions between plants and the environment. In addition, omics can be applied to elucidate the growth, senescence, yield, and responses of plants to biotic and abiotic stress. The integration of various omics technologies enables the relationships between plant genomes and phenotypes under specific environmental conditions to be analyzed. These advanced plant biotechnologies could be used to obtain plants that are highly resistant to stress conditions and that are therefore able to cope with climate change.
This Special Issue aims to address the mechanisms of plant growth and productivity derived from the effects of environmental stress in herbal plants. In particular, we aim to highlight that an approach based on different integrated systems could enhance the adaptation and productivity of plants in a sustainable way using omics approaches, such as bioinformatics, genomics, (meta)transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, ionomics, etc.
We welcome the submission of original research articles, reviews, and mini-reviews whose scope includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Studies on plant–environment interactions through bioinformatics, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, etc;
- Applying natural small molecules of plant origin with biological activity to the improve the tolerance of plants;
- Using cultivation measures, plant growth regulators, fertilizers, and other methods to improve environmental stress resistance and important agronomic traits in plants;
- Revealing molecular mechanisms and the regulatory network under various environmental stresses in plants and improving stress tolerance through genetic engineering;
- Identifying the key regulatory genes of important agronomic traits in herbal plants and enhancing molecular breeding methods.
Prof. Dr. Longxing Hu
Prof. Dr. Liang Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioinformatics
- genomics
- gene family
- herbal plants
- ionics
- metabolomics
- stress biology
- transcriptomics
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