The Metabolic Adaptations of Plants to Climate Change
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Biotic and Abiotic Stress".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 June 2021) | Viewed by 3403
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant metabolites; metabolic adaptations of plants to climate change and invasive species; plant–predator and pollinator reward dynamics; chemical ecology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants, predators, and stressors impact the environmental health of an ecosystem by altering its metabolic and phenological attributes. Many of the stressors experienced by plants are driven by climate change. A plant’s ability to adapt to these stressors is limited to changes metabolically (rapid), phenotypically (mid), and migratorily (long). Plants may enact more than one response in an attempt to mitigate multiple stressors resulting in complex metabolic changes. Ultimately, for a plant species to succeed, its ability to adapt to the environment is critical.
Climate change presents a unique set of challenges to plants. These challenges range from temperature and climatic stressors, to changes in predation and invasive species. The plant’s first-line of defense is to metabolically address the oxidative stress; however, while secondary metabolite production may be appropriate for one stressor, the metabolites produced may not be appropriate for multiple stressors. An understanding of these interactions and mechanisms is essential to elucidating the impacts of climate change not only on plants, but also the larger ecological landscape.
In this Special Issue, we aim to present papers on plant adaptations to climate change, metabolic pathways activated within plants due to climate change, how shifts in metabolite production affect agricultural systems, plant metabolic implications for predators and pollinators, and plant adaptations to invasive species in a changing climate.
Dr. Kenneth J. Olejar
Dr. Stewart Field
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- abiotic stress
- plant metabolic adaptations
- oxidative stress
- secondary metabolites
- climate change
- phytohormone
- plant physiological phenomena
