Developing Temperature-Resilient Plants: Responses and Mitigation Strategies

Dear Colleagues,

Plants are extensively well-thought-out as the primary source for nourishing natural life on earth. However, plants have to face various temperature stresses, mainly heat, chilling, and freezing stress, due to adverse climate fluctuations. These stresses are considered as a major threat to sustainable agriculture by hindering plant growth and development, causing damage, ultimately leading to yield losses worldwide, and counteracting to achieve the goal of “ZERO HUNGER” proposed by the FAO-UN. Notably, this is primarily because of the numerous inequities happening at the molecular, cellular and/or physiological levels, especially during plant developmental stages under temperature stress. Plants counter to temperature stress via a complex phenomenon including variations at different developmental stages that comprise modifications in physiological and biochemical processes, gene expression, and differences in the levels of metabolites and proteins.

During the last decade, omics approaches and seed priming with different phytohormones/plant growth regulators have revolutionized how plant biologists explore stress-responsive mechanisms and pathways, driven by current scientific developments. However, investigations are still required to explore numerous features of temperature stress responses in plants to create a complete idea in stress signaling. Therefore, this special issue will highlight the recent advances in the utilization of different conventional and modern biotechnological strategies such as (but not limited to) genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, proteomics, miRNA, genome editing, transgenic plants, exogenous application of plant growth regulators, etc., to understand stress adaptation and tolerance mechanisms to feed the growing population. 

We welcome submissions of original research and review articles dealing with temperature stress at both physiological and molecular levels.

Prof. Dr. Channapatna S. Prakash
Dr. Ali Raza
Prof. Dr. Xiling Zou
Prof. Dr. Daojie Wan
Guest Editors

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