Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Stress Responses and Development

Dear Colleagues,

Plants constantly face environmental pressures, drought, heat, salinity, nutrient imbalance, and biotic attack, which shape how they grow and survive. Over the last decade, rapid progress in genomics, multi-omics technologies, and advanced imaging has begun to reveal how plants translate these external cues into molecular and developmental responses. Hormonal signaling, transcriptional regulation, metabolic adjustments, and cellular communication play crucial roles in orchestrating these responses.

This Special Issue aims to bring together studies that deepen our understanding of how plants sense stress, reprogram their metabolism, and adjust their developmental pathways. We welcome contributions exploring hormone signaling networks, stress-responsive regulators, epigenetic modifications, metabolite dynamics, developmental plasticity, and synthetic or genome-editing approaches that uncover new mechanistic insights. Submissions involving both model and crop species are encouraged, particularly those offering translational perspectives for improving resilience and agricultural productivity.

Dr. Abdul Wakeel Umar
Guest Editor

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