Advanced Plant Molecular Responses to Abiotic Stresses

Dear Colleagues,

Plants always encounter stressful circumstances from germination to death, such as light, water, salts, temperature, and nutrient and biotic stresses, primarily affecting the plant’s growth, development, and progeny. But, the plant itself always overcomes these stresses through molecular responses, which means recognition, signal transduction, transcription factor activation/deactivation responses, and finally gene expression. Plant gene expression helps to register or be tolerant and even overcome stressful environments. In addition, plant hormones are crucial compounds for regulating these kinds of target gene expressions.

This Special Issue aims to provide an advanced molecular mechanism on plant abiotic stress acclimation or adaptation with a special focus on the plant abiotic stress registance mechanism. I am confident that this Special Issue will help expand the understanding of the tolerance or overcome mechanism of abiotic stress in plants and further expand the molecular biological basis for researchers studying plant stress. We welcome all research papers or reviews containing molecular biological data.

Dr. Dong-Gwan Kim
Guest Editor

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