Phylogenetics of Stress Regulators in Plants

Dear Colleagues,

Multiple layers of molecular regulators that play a role in plant tolerance to environmental stresses have been revealed in model plants and some crops. For example, stress-responsive transcriptional factors (transcriptional regulators), writers, readers, and erasers of RNA modifications (post-transcriptional regulators), proteins involved in phosphorylation and autophagy (post-translational regulators) and metabolic enzymes function in plant resistance to abiotic and biotic stress. However, the phylogenetics of these stress regulators in crop species and horticultural plants, including vegetables, flowers, and trees, remain largely unexplored. Gene families undergo duplication or depletion among different species and evolve diverse molecular functions under environmental pressure. With the advance of high-throughput sequencing, many plant genomes have been assembled, and substantial transcriptome profiling has been performed in these plants under stress conditions. This information opens a window for us to identify and characterize gene families and their expression pattern response to stress.

For this Special Issue, we invite submissions that address phylogenetics of stress regulators, focusing on the gain and loss of particular gene families in plants, and how these genes respond to variant environmental cues, which potentially contribute to plant defense and stress tolerance.

This Special Issue “Phylogenetics of Stress Regulators in Plants" is a platform for the transfer of current knowledge from model plants to broader plant species, and to reveal diverse stress response of regulatory genes in plants.

Dr. Xiang Yu
Dr. Yan Bao
Guest Editors

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