Abiotic Stress in Land Plants: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 July 2024) | Viewed by 20905
Special Issue Editors
Interests: crop protection; plant biotechnology; plant breeding, plant genetics; molecular genetics; plant biology
2. Department of Biology, Western University, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada
Interests: arabidopsis; abiotic stresses
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Interests: wheat genetics; cotton genetics; crop; plant genetics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants in their natural environments are subjected to a variety of environmental stresses, including abiotic stresses such as low and high temperature, salinity, drought, flood, heavy metal toxicity, and oxidative stress. These environmental factors impact plant survival, yield, reproduction, and growth. To overcome these abiotic stresses, plants respond simultaneously through several tolerance mechanisms to counter the disturbances and retain protection and health. Multiple crop species now have reference and draft genome and transcriptome assemblies, and resequencing data are increasing. Scientists are using comparative genomic, epigenomic, and transcriptomic analyses to pinpoint candidate genes and provide mechanistic insight into the molecular network underlying stress responses. To maximize the potential of staple crops and introduce new crops for food and feed, high-throughput phenotyping, genome-wide association studies, and optimized genomics-assisted breeding are all gaining popularity. Plant biotechnologists and breeders need to use novel methods to increase crop plants’ abiotic stress tolerance as a result of rising abiotic stress issues. However, even though recent studies have uncovered a number of key genes, gene regulatory networks, and quantitative trait loci that mediate plant responses to different abiotic stresses, a complete view of this multifaceted trait is still missing. To better understand how plants respond and adapt to environmental stresses, molecular genetics and genomics are the focus of this discussion. Articles of any format (original research, methods, opinion, review) that shed new light on any facet of plant responses and adaptation to abiotic stresses are welcome.
Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Plant’s molecular, biochemical, and physiological responses;
- Mechanisms of abiotic stress responses and tolerance;
- Stress perception, signal translation, abiotic severity, and plant adaptation and defense systems;
- Genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics approaches;
- Genome editing for abiotic stress tolerance;
- Epigenomics modifications, microRNA, long non-coding RNA;
- Genome sequencing, resequencing, genome wide association studies, mapping of genetic loci governing abiotic stress;
- Metabolic regulations in response to abiotic stress.
Dr. Muhammad Imran
Dr. Emilie Widemann
Dr. Sarfraz Shafiq
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- abiotic stress
- regulatory networks
- genetic diversity
- molecular genetics
- genomics
- functional genomics
- transcriptomics
- epigenomics
- epitrancriptomics
- miRNA
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