Current Advances in Plant Gene Regulatory Networks
A special issue of Cells (ISSN 2073-4409). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant, Algae and Fungi Cell Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2026 | Viewed by 755
Special Issue Editor
2. Biological Research Centre, Institute of Plant Biology, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary
Interests: plants; Arabidopsis thaliana; light-regulated gene expression; photoreceptors; photomorphogenesis; circadian clock; clock-regulated gene expression; flowering time; photoperiodism
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
One of the principal features of living organisms is their ability to adapt to their ever-changing environment using an incredible variety of strategies. Plants are sessile organisms, so changing locations is not an option for adaptation for them. Instead, plants employ complex sensing and signaling systems to constantly monitor the parameters of the environment (e.g., light, temperature, availability of water, etc.) and respond to their alterations with an orchestrated modulation of gene expression. Reprograming of specific gene sets eventually leads to changes in metabolism, development, and growth to accommodate the actual conditions.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect research articles and review papers that illustrate the unparalleled diversity and complexity of plant signaling and regulatory systems, including, but not limited to, light- and circadian clock-regulated gene expression, temperature sensing and thermomorphogenesis, molecular responses to water/drought/osmotic/saline stress, sensing and responding to biotic stress, hormonal regulation of development, and flowering time determination.
Authors wishing to contribute to this Special Issue with review papers are asked to contact the Guest Editor before starting the actual work in order to check and prevent potential redundancies.
We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions.
Dr. Laszlo Kozma-Bognar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plants
- light signaling
- circadian clock
- thermomorphogenesis
- hormonal regulation
- a/biotic stress-responsive gene expression
- flowering time
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