New Insights into Environmental Stresses and Plants: Second 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: 20 June 2026 | Viewed by 882
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Dear Colleagues,
Plants suffer from various environmental stresses, including abiotic (drought, heat, cold, and ionic stress, such as salt, aluminum, and cadmium) and biotic stresses (insects, parasites, viruses, fungi, or bacteria), which limit plant growth and development. The frequency and intensity of environmental stresses are increasing due to global warming. Multiple adaptive strategies to counter environmental stresses have been revealed in plants, including osmotic balance, lipid signaling and metabolism, and antioxidant defense systems, among others. The rapid development of new technologies, such as gene editing, genomics, phenomics, etc., will provide illuminating insights into the adaptation of plants to diverse stresses and the interaction between environmental stresses and plants.
In this Special Issue of IJMS, we will focus on the physiological, metabolic, and molecular mechanisms of plant response to abiotic and biotic stresses. Transgenic technology and omics studies based on transcriptomics, proteomics, ionomics, metabolomics, genomics, or phenomics are important approaches to reveal plant adaptation to environmental stress. Research papers and up-to-date review articles are equally welcome.
Prof. Dr. Zhou Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- abiotic stress
- biotic stress
- adaptation
- gene function
- omics
- metabolic regulation
- stress signal
- molecular mechanism
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