Plant Development and Abiotic Stress Response Regulation via Alternative Splicing
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: closed (20 May 2025) | Viewed by 2772
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant abiotic stress response; plant development regulation; Arabidopsis; non-tandem CCCH zinc finger genes; AP2/ERF transcription factors; osmotic stress; hypoxia stress; salt stress; alternative splicing
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Dear Colleagues,
Alternative RNA splicing is a crucial step for expressing information encoded in plant genomes, and regulates plant development and abiotic stress responses.
Abiotic stresses such as salt, drought, heat, cold and hypoxia markedly alter splicing patterns in plants. These alternative splicing events implement changes in gene expression for adaptive responses to adverse environments. In addition, alternative splicing regulates plant developmental processes by generating different alternative splice variants. However, the precise regulatory mechanism of alternative splicing in plant development and abiotic stress responses remains to be understood.
This Special Issue will focus on findings relating to the regulatory mechanisms underlying plant development and abiotic stress responses via alternative splicing. The submission of work reporting the molecular mechanisms of alternative splicing in plant development and abiotic stress signal transduction is especially encouraged. Notwithstanding, contributions on other related topics to understand the regulatory mechanisms of alternative splicing in plants are also welcomed, including reviews and original research articles.
Prof. Dr. Yong-Hwan Moon
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plants
- development
- abiotic stress responses
- alternative splicing
- transcriptional regulation
- signaling
- splicing factors
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