Abiotic Stresses in Plants: An Update
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 132
Editor
Interests: photosynthesis; secondary metabolites; abiotic and biotic stresses; plant physiology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Stress factors, both biotic and abiotic, are an inherent aspect of plant vegetation. Since plants are physically unable to avoid most stress factors, they have evolved with a number of mechanisms that allow them to endure stress and/or mitigate its effects. The primary adjustment mechanisms are adaptation and acclimation. Adaptation is defined as changes in the genome that occur at the population level. Acclimatization is an individual response of a single organism to environmental changes, associated with the use of the main metabolic pathways and their products or the activation of alternative metabolic pathways and de novo synthesis of their components. These responses are induced or regulated by various stress ‘receptors’, which include the photosynthetic apparatus, one of the most sensitive plant sensors.
Understanding the mechanisms that allow plants to have an effective defense against emerging stress, while maintaining efficient growth and yield, is one of the most important tasks for improving the use of plants. This Special Issue of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) focuses on the novel aspects of plant stress tolerance and resistance mechanisms at various levels, ranging from the physiological to the proteomic and molecular. Scientists from around the world are invited to submit original papers and reviews that investigate plant responses to abiotic stress.
Dr. Krzysztof Michał Tokarz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- extreme temperatures
- floods
- photosynthetic apparatus
- salinity
- secondary metabolites
- UV radiation
- water shortages
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