Environmental Microbiology and Plant Molecular Biology

Dear Colleagues,

Environmental coercion is a constant concern of scholars all over the world. Particularly, plants must cope with different environmental stresses in their life span, including drought, flooded conditions, hypoxia, salt, heavy metal, metalloid, nutrition deficiency, ultraviolet radiation, high light, high or low temperature, as well as the interaction or combination of different stresses. In recent decades, many scholars have significantly improved plant response to various environmental stresses using various technical means.

In recent years, environmental problems have become increasingly serious, and external environmental factors influencing plants will manifest through physiological phenotypes. However, the development and application of modern high-throughput omics techniques (including genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and so on) can further explore the soil environment of plant growth and the molecular mechanisms of the plant growth process so that people can better understand.

Thus, this Special Issue plans to provide an overview of the most recent advances in the field of the influence of the external environment on microorganisms and plants. These topics include but are not limited to:

1. Environmental microorganisms and climate change;
2. Relationship between forest soil and microorganism;
3. Effects of microorganisms on soil carbon process and cycle;
4. Effects of microorganisms on soil nitrogen cycle;
5. Plant stress tolerance and plant epigenomics;
6. Structural, functional, and comparative genomics;
7. Evolutionary, population, and quantitative genetics;
8. Ecological and physiological genetics;
9. Molecular cellular and developmental genetics;
10. Conservation and restoration genetics;
11. Breeding and germplasm development and Bioinformatics and databases;

All guest editors of this Special Issue cordially invite you to contribute to “Environmental Microbiology and Plant Molecular Biology”.

Dr. Jiang Jiang
Dr. Zhizhong Song
Dr. Ziqiang Liu
Dr. Yahui Chen
Guest Editors

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