Molecular Mechanisms of Plant–Soil–Water Interactions Under Agricultural Water Stress
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: 28 February 2027 | Viewed by 54
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Dear Colleagues,
Water availability is a major determinant of plant productivity, ecosystem stability, and global food security, particularly under increasing climate variability and agricultural water stress. Although water movement and utilization have traditionally been studied from physiological and hydrological perspectives, recent advances in molecular plant science have revealed that plant water acquisition, transport, conservation, and stress adaptation are controlled by complex networks involving genes, proteins, metabolites, signaling molecules, and plant–microbiome interactions.
This Special Issue aims to highlight the molecular mechanisms underlying plant–soil–water interactions, with particular emphasis on how plants perceive and respond to drought, salinity, waterlogging, and heterogeneous soil-moisture environments. The scope of the Special Issue includes molecular regulation of aquaporins and membrane transport systems, hormone-mediated water stress signaling, transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of water-use efficiency (WUE), root developmental plasticity, molecular communication at the plant–rhizosphere interface, and microbiome-mediated regulation of plant water acquisition and stress resilience. Through a combination of molecular biology, genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and mechanistic plant physiology, this Special Issue will provide new insights into the regulatory networks controlling plant water relations and support the development of climate-resilient crops and sustainable agricultural systems.
We are seeking original research articles and comprehensive reviews that elucidate molecular, biochemical, cellular, genetic, genomic, proteomic, metabolomic, and microbiome-mediated mechanisms governing plant responses to water availability and stress.
Dr. Saif Ullah
Dr. Nawab Ali
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- molecular plant–water interactions
- plant–soil–water nexus
- aquaporins
- water-use efficiency (WUE)
- drought stress signaling
- abscisic acid (ABA)
- root system architecture
- plant hydraulics
- transcriptomics
- proteomics
- metabolomics
- epigenetic regulation
- rhizosphere microbiome
- salinity tolerance
- climate-resilient crops
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