Study on Gene Expression and Regulation under Plant Stress
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Biotic and Abiotic Stress".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 303
Special Issue Editor
Interests: local adaptation; G–E interaction; wild perennial grasses; photoperiodic flowering; abiotic stresses
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Impact of combined abiotic and biotic stresses is currently one of the major threats to agricultural productivity and ecological sustainability. Due to their sessile lifestyle, plants are exquisitely sensitive to their environment cues and respond dynamically to cope with various stresses. Identifying the molecular and genetic basis of stress responses in plants has proven to be critical to understanding adaptation in both agricultural and natural systems. During the past decades, forward and reverse genetic approaches have been successful in identifying stress-related genetic loci and genes. Recent advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies provide opportunities gleaning insights into regulatory networks of these stress regulators. As sensitivity to the circadian clock and developmental stages, there is an urgent need to globally trace for stress gene expression across different timings, cell types, tissues, organs, and individuals. Additionally, expression variation within and among populations will provide important insights into the evolutionary changes that shape the local adaptation.
This Special Issue aims to present original research articles and reviews on the dynamic of gene regulation under environmental stresses in plants, including but not limited to: 1) the temporal-spatial transcriptome landscapes under abiotic and biotic stresses; 2) the stress-responsive expression divergence across representative genotypes under controlled conditions of greenhouses or laboratories and natural field environments; 3) identification of genetic loci and specific genes associated with complex stress conditions and their regulatory pathways; 4) effects of epigenetic regulation of gene expression related to multitude of environmental stressors.
Dr. Xiaoyu Weng
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- stress
- transcriptome
- temporal-spatial
- expression variation
- local adaption
