Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress: Mechanisms and Adaptations
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: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 11
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant abiotic stress; stress physiology; plant symbiosis; rhizosphere microbiome; transcriptomics; metagenomics
Interests: plants; environmental stress; signaling molecules; transcription factors; gene identification and analysis; gene regulatory network; signal transduction
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Dear Colleagues,
Abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, temperature extremes, and nutrient deficiency are major limiting factors to plant growth and crop productivity worldwide. An understanding of how plants perceive, respond to, and adapt to such stress conditions is crucial to ensuring agricultural sustainability and food security in the face of a changing climate.
This Special Issue invites original research articles, reviews, and short communications examining the physiological, biochemical, molecular, and genetic mechanisms of plant abiotic stress responses. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Signal transduction pathways in abiotic stress perception;
- Stress-responsive gene regulation and transcription factors;
- Hormonal cross-talk and metabolic adaptations;
- Antioxidant systems and ROS signaling;
- Epigenetic and post-translational modifications;
- Plant-microbe interactions and their role in enhancing stress tolerance;
- Genomic and proteomic approaches to stress tolerance;
- Breeding and biotechnological strategies towards developing stress-tolerant crops.
We aim to integrate state-of-the-art research that pushes the boundaries of knowledge in plant stress biology and supports the development of climate-resilient agricultural-systems.
Dr. Shalini Tiwari
Prof. Dr. Lam-Son Phan Tran
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- salinity stress
- heat and cold stress
- oxidative stress
- signal transduction
- stress-responsive genes
- antioxidant defence mechanisms
- hormonal regulation
- molecular adaptation
- epigenetic regulation
- plant-microbe interaction
- crop improvement
- stress-resilient plants
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