Adaptation Mechanisms of Forest Trees to Abiotic Stress
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 548
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Biology, Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, Shenzhen 518172, China
3. State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
Interests: plant stress resistance physiology; stem cell regulation; tree micropropagation; forest plantation
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to provide an overview of the most recent advances in the field of adaptation mechanisms of forest trees to abiotic stress. Abiotic stresses, such as drought, salinity, and cold, are the main environmental stresses that adversely affect tree growth and thereby play a crucial role in determining forest productivity and the geographic distribution of tree species. Tree responses and tolerance to abiotic stress are complex biological processes, which can be better understood by employing genetic, genomic, metabolomic, and phenomic approaches to analyze them at a systems level. This will expedite the dissection of stress-sensing and signaling networks to further support efficient genetic improvement programs for forest trees. Moreover, the enormous genetic diversity for stress tolerance exists within some forest tree species, and the molecular genetic basis for this diversity has been rapidly unfolding in recent years, thanks to advances in sequencing technologies. In addition, the use of emerging phenotyping technologies extends the suite of traits that can be measured and will provide us with a better understanding of stress tolerance. The elucidation of abiotic stress tolerance mechanisms will enable the effective pyramiding of multiple tolerances in a single tree through genetic engineering. In this Special Issue, we will collect recent progress in the molecular basis of abiotic stress tolerance in forest trees and discuss the recommendations for future work.
Prof. Dr. Ling Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- genetic variation
- epigenetic control
- plant hormone
- nitric oxide
- reactive oxygen species
- phenomic
- metabolomic
- genomic
- signal transduction
- gene function
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