Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Defense in Crop Plants, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921). This special issue belongs to the section "ROS, RNS and RSS".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 706
Special Issue Editors
Interests: proteomics; phenolic compounds; essential oils; secondary metabolites biosynthesis; toxicology; oxidative stress; antioxidant activity; antimicrobial and anticancer activity
Interests: crop production; cereal grain quality; wheat; rye; trriticale; plant nutrition; oxidative stres; plant biochemistry; photosynthesis; biostimulants
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The first edition of the Special Issue “Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Defense in Crop Plants” has collected publications on the impact of environmental stresses on the condition of crop plants. Existing knowledge on the antioxidant response in counteracting these stresses was also furthered, which is important for ensuring plants' proper response and survival. Unfavorable environmental conditions are the main cause of the decline in crop yields. Plants, being organisms unable to move, are constantly exposed to environmental stresses, which include both biotic stresses (water shortage, extreme temperatures, soil salinity, heavy metals, nutrient deficiency) and abiotic stresses (agrophage attack). Complex adaptive mechanisms that plants have developed help them tolerate and adapt to unfavorable conditions. The antioxidant system, composed of enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants, helps plants maintain redox balance, thus increasing their resistance to stress.
In the second edition of this Special Issue, we hope to expand the scope of defense mechanisms of crops exposed to environmental stresses to better understand how crops adapt to stress conditions. This new knowledge will help breeders to develop varieties with a greater tolerance to stress. In turn, this will increase food availability while reducing the cost of production.
Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Chrzanowski
Guest Editor
Dr. Marta Jańczak-Pieniążek
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- biotic and abiotic stress
- oxidative stress
- ROS
- plant biostimulants
- crop plants
- antioxidant mechanisms
- oxidative stress
- antioxidant response
- antioxidant enzymes
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