Regulation of Plant Protein Homeostasis under 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: closed (20 December 2023) | Viewed by 4552
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Interests: plant plasticity; stress signaling; hormonal integration
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Interests: polyamines; thermospermine; spermidine; eIF5A; hypusination; translation factors; abiotic stress; cell death; autophagy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The expectation in the coming decades of an increase in the global population together with severe climate restrictions poses high risk to food and feed security in large areas of our planet. A profound change in food production and agriculture is required in order to nourish the current 815 million hungry people today and the additional 2 billion people expected by 2050. On the other hand, consequences of climate change are affecting national economies with more frequent and numerous extreme weather events and new records of greenhouse gas emissions. In this context, plant biotechnology may provide solutions to agricultural practices by enhancing plant yield production and tolerance to adverse growth conditions caused by either biotic or abiotic challenges or their simultaneous appearance.
However, any approach for biotechnological intervention to improve plant stress tolerance demands a deep knowledge of the underlying molecular mechanisms involved in the plant response. Plants, as sessile organisms, have acquired numerous mechanisms to cope with stress conditions. This eventually converges on the regulation of protein homeostasis, namely the complete set of molecular events which ultimately define the protein level, localization and activity of the whole proteome. Among other processes we include protein biosynthesis, protein transport, protein modifications, protein interactions and protein targeted degradation.
In this Special Issue on the ‘Regulation of Plant Protein Homeostasis Under Stress’, we invite authors to contribute either original research or review studies to understand the relevance of protein homeostasis to plant stress adaptation, including biotic and/or abiotic insults affecting plant growth, development and yield.
Dr. Borja Belda-Palazón
Dr. Alejandro Ferrando
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- protein biosynthesis
- protein transport
- protein modifications
- protein interactions
- protein-targeted degradation
