Phytohormones in Vegetable Reproductive Development under Abiotic Stress
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural and Floricultural Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2021) | Viewed by 449
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Crop growth and productivity are adversely affected by various abiotic stresses. Crop plants are frequently exposed to a plethora of stress, such as low temperature, salt, drought, flooding, heat, oxidative stress, and others. Abiotic stress prevents crops, in general, and vegetable crops, in particular, from reaching their yield potential, becoming the primary threat to agriculture production.
Hormones are signaling molecules that participate in the control of plant growth and development. Recent research demonstrates that female and male flower organs and gametophytes’ developmental processes are under hormonal regulation. Recent work has also shown that plant hormones play a central role in the perception and mitigation of abiotic stress in plants. However, these findings are mainly in the model plant Arabidopsis and other model crops. Over the recent years, our understanding of cellular hormone homeostasis and hormone signaling-related molecular mechanisms has massively improved. However, we are still far from having a comprehensive picture of phytohormones’ complex molecular interactions in the reproductive developmental process of vegetable crops. Furthermore, we still lack an understanding of the role of phytohormones during reproductive development, gametogenesis, and embryogenesis under abiotic stress conditions.
This Special Issue calls for original research articles, reviews, and perspectives that address the progress and current knowledge in the study on the role of phytohormones in the reproductive development of vegetable crops under abiotic stress conditions. The Special Issue will focus on understanding the role of plant hormones in the following reproductive process: stamen and carpel development, gametogenesis (female and male), pollination, pollen pistil interaction, fertilization, embryogenesis, fruit development, and other related processes.Dr. Hagai Yasuor
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- gametophyte
- stamen
- carpel
- pollen
- pistil
- ovule
- sexual reproduction
- seed development
- embryogenesis
- hormones
- stress response
- plant hormone interaction
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