Plant Stress and Acclimation Responses During Global Warming
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: 25 January 2026 | Viewed by 26
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Interests: cell death; hormonal and reactive oxygen species signaling; retrograde signaling and regulation of photosynthesis; systemic stress and defence responses; transcription factors and gene expression; nonphotochemical quenching; plant physiology and molecular biology
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Dear Colleagues,
Terrestrial plants contribute to the Earth’s carbon and energy balance, being responsible for about 20% of global photosynthesis and thus for significant CO2 assimilation, cooling the atmosphere via transpiration and evaporation. However, as global warming progresses, plants are more exposed to environmental stresses such as excessive light, high temperatures, drought, and water depravation, all of which affect critical physiological and molecular processes such as photosynthesis, transpiration, and absorbed energy dissipation as heat. Therefore, better understanding of the mechanisms that control plant responses to absorbed energy in excess (AEE), particularly non-photochemical quenching (NPQ), inhibition of photosynthetic electron transport, photorespiration, and foliar thermoregulation, together with heat shock responses and cell death regulation, is crucial as these processes determine the balance between photosynthesis and photoinhibition, deciding whether leaves can less or more efficiently cool down during heat waves. Current climate models fail to account for the conditional variability in foliar heat emission caused by these conditional physiological responses, leaving considerable gaps in the prediction of ecosystem behavior and climate dynamics.
We welcome all manuscripts furthering the understanding of the above mechanisms of these complex AEE, heat, and water deprivation stress responses.
Prof. Dr. Stanisław Karpiński
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- acclimatory responses in plants
- chloroplast retrograde and nuclear anterograde signaling
- excess light and heat shock responses
- global warming and regulation of gene expression
- energy dissipation as heat and cell death regulation
- photosynthesis, stomatal conductance and transpiration regulation during heat waves
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