Transcriptional Regulation in Plant Development: 3rd 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: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 1575
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Interests: histone acetylation; plant development; plant molecular genetics; epigenetics
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Dear Colleagues,
Many developmental processes in plants are closely regulated at the level of transcription. Expression changes of various functional and regulatory proteins result in alterations ranging from embryonic structures to mature plant morphology. A number of genetic or epigenetic players of plant development have been identified in model plant species like Arabidopsis or rice, and their transcriptional networks have been explored extensively at the molecular level. However, it is not well understood—especially in non-model plant species—how these regulators integrate the internal and external signals and how they modify the developmental program in which thousands of genes are involved. Given the complexity of the regulatory network, it is still a challenge to decipher the molecular mechanisms of plant development from the perspective of transcriptional regulation. This Special Issue aims to explore the genetic, epigenetic, and metabolomic bases of plant development, with a focus on horticultural plants. We particularly encourage submissions focusing on the molecular mechanisms in which environmental cues (or agronomic managements) affect development-related traits such as crop architecture, fruit shape, pigments, and nutritional compositions. This Special Issue will cover a wide range of research topics, including, but not limited to, different aspects of transcriptional regulation related to plant development, such as the following:
- Molecular mechanisms related to development in horticultural plants and other economically important species;
- Evo-devo genetic analysis of agronomic traits during crop domestication and improvement;
- Genetic basis of agronomic management and environmental factors on the nutritional composition of horticultural crops;
- Characterization of transcriptional factors or other genetic/epigenetic regulators in plants;
- Genomic or transcriptomic analysis of development-related events in plants.
Dr. Konstantinos E. Vlachonasios
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- environmental stresses
- plant development
- vegetative development
- plant physiology and biochemistry
- transcriptional regulation
- plant–environment interactions
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