Plant Molecular Regulatory Networks and Stress Responses
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 January 2026 | Viewed by 251
Special Issue Editor
2. Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Interests: plant genomics; plant stress response; single-cell genomics; gene regulatory network; regulatory mechanism; multi-omics integration; next-generation sequencing; deep learning; bioinformatics; systems biology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants respond to environmental stresses through complex and highly coordinated molecular regulatory networks. These networks accommodate signal perception, transduction, and gene expression, enabling plants to adapt to diverse abiotic stress conditions. By deciphering these regulatory mechanisms, researchers can identify key stress-responsive genes, offering valuable targets for crop improvement.
Recent advances in multi-omics integration technologies—including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, epigenomics, and phenomics—have provided unprecedented resolution in dissecting plant stress responses. Integrative analyses across these data layers reveal the intricate connections between the gene regulatory circuits, signaling pathways, and metabolic processes involved in stress adaptation.
This Special Issue aims to highlight the latest breakthroughs in multi-omics integration for unraveling plant molecular regulatory networks under stress. We especially welcome studies employing innovative technologies such as deep learning, artificial intelligence, single-cell RNA sequencing, spatial transcriptomics/genomics, or advanced bioinformatics pipelines to identify key regulatory hubs/genes and predict stress-responsive elements.
We invite original research and comprehensive reviews that provide novel insights into plant–environment interactions enabled by multi-omics integration and support the advancement of precision breeding approaches.
Dr. Xiujun Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant stress response
- stress response gene
- regulatory mechanism
- gene regulatory network
- transcriptional regulation
- post-transcriptional regulation
- multi-omics integration
- single-cell RNA-seq
- spatial genomics
- bioinformatics
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