Molecular Advances in Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plants: Focus on Atmospheric Stressors, 2nd Edition
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 October 2025 | Viewed by 713
Special Issue Editor
Interests: molecular, biochemical, and physiological mechanisms of plant responses to pathogens and pests especially reactive oxygen and nitrogen species; enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants; sugars as signaling molecules; regulation of proteolysis and nitrogen metabolism; additional research topics concern the plant abiotic stress especially metallic trace elements and mechanisms of combined stresses
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Dear Colleagues,
Plants’ reactions to abiotic stresses are extraordinarily complex. They take place at various levels of plant organization, starting from changes in biochemical processes, such as respiration, photosynthesis, and transpiration, and ending during morphological and anatomical changes in plants’ organs. However, these abovementioned changes are preceded by the activation of efficient molecular signaling machinery, which ensures that plants tune in to external abiotic stimuli.
As the first edition was successful, this second edition requests original and review papers concerning hormonal and sugar signaling, reactive oxygen–nitrogen–sulfur species interactions, cascades of kinases, transcription factors, and changes in gene expression and gene expression regulation in response to abiotic stresses operating separately, simultaneously, or sequentially. We invite publications in the fields of cold, heat, frost, cold waves, heat waves, air quality and pollution, UV radiation, light quality, and other atmospheric factors. Submitted manuscripts must look at clear abiotic stress signaling aspects at the molecular level, which should be reflected not only in the presented results, but also in their discussion. We also encourage the submission of manuscripts from the developing discipline of molecular biology, namely interactomics, describing molecular interactions between molecules belonging to different biochemical groups (proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, and carbohydrates) and within a given group.
For more papers from the first edition, see https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms/special_issues/K7RU8RIY4E
Dr. Mateusz Labudda
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- abiotic stress
- interactomics
- gene expression regulation
- kinases
- oxidative stress
- phytohormones
- signaling, sugar sensing and signaling
- transcription factors
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