Recent Advances in the Ecophysiology, Biochemistry, and Stress Adaptation of Succulent Plants
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Biotic and Abiotic Stress".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 1042
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biodiversity; cacti; conservation biology; ecosystem functioning; functional ecology; global environmental change; natural resource management; plant ecophysiology; plant life cycle; stress tolerance; succulent species; sustainable development
Interests: plant ecophysiology; conservation biology; global environmental change; stress tolerance; restauration; epiphytes; photosynthesis; seed ecology
Interests: plant ecophysiology; CAM plant research; plant responses to abiotic stress
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will focus on succulent plants, a group uniquely adapted to survive in arid and semiarid environments, and which are also of increasing horticultural and ornamental importance worldwide. We invite contributions that address fundamental and applied aspects of succulent plant biology, with particular emphasis on their ecophysiological, anatomical, biochemical, and horticultural traits.
Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Ecophysiological mechanisms of drought, heat, and salinity tolerance in succulents;
- Biochemical and molecular bases of CAM photosynthesis and water-use efficiency;
- Stress physiology: antioxidant systems, osmotic adjustment, and secondary metabolites;
- Functional anatomy and morphological traits related to water storage and conservation;
- Seed germination, dormancy, and establishment strategies under extreme environments;
- Roles of succulent plants in horticulture, landscaping, and climate-resilient agriculture;
- Conservation physiology of rare or threatened succulent species;
- Biotechnological and breeding advances in succulent plants.
Dr. José Luis Aragón-Gastélum
Dr. Claudia González-Salvatierra
Dr. Joel Flores
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Aizoaceae
- Aloe
- antioxidant enzymes
- Apocynaceae
- Asparagaceae
- Asphodelaceae
- Cactaceae
- CAM photosynthesis
- conservation physiology
- Crassulaceae
- ecophysiology
- Euphorbiaceae
- drought tolerance
- horticulture
- Orchidaceae
- Portulacaceae
- seed germination
- stress physiology
- succulent plants
- sustainable landscaping
- water-use efficiency
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