New Advances in Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses
A special issue of Current Issues in Molecular Biology (ISSN 1467-3045). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025
Special Issue Editor
Interests: alternative splicing in plants; functional proteomics; stress response; resource utilization of economic tree species
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Dear Colleagues,
Plants face escalating environmental pressures including drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, heavy metals, and pathogens driven by climate change and anthropogenic activities. Understanding how plants perceive, signal, and adapt to these stresses is critical for global food security and ecosystem resilience. Recent advances in molecular biology, genomics, and imaging technologies have revolutionized this field. Breakthroughs in identifying stress sensors, decoding complex signaling networks, and characterizing epigenetic and transcriptional regulators have unveiled sophisticated plant adaptation mechanisms. Innovations such as CRISPR-based gene editing, promising techniques, and microbiome engineering now enable targeted enhancement of stress tolerance. This Special Issue will address various topics related to advances in plant responses to environmental stresses, which not only deepen fundamental knowledge but also accelerate the development of climate-resilient crops for sustainable agriculture in a rapidly changing world.
Prof. Dr. Fuyuan Zhu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- abiotic stress
- functional proteomics
- stress response
- salt stress
- heavy metal stress
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