Emerging Insights into Phytohormone Signaling in Plants
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 December 2025 | Viewed by 709
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants exhibit an incredible diversity, spanning from simple algae to complex flowering plants, each with unique morphological, physiological, and ecological traits. Despite this vast diversity, the roles of plant hormones as fundamental regulators of growth, development, and responses to environmental stimuli are deeply conserved across plant lineages. Plant hormones serve as the cornerstone of physiological processes, ensuring the survival and adaptability of plants in various environments. However, due to the distinct evolutionary trajectories of different plant species, the pathways and mechanisms by which these hormones function also exhibit significant variation.
Suggested topics for inclusion in this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Conserved roles of plant hormones across lineages, specifically comparative analyses of hormone biosynthesis and signaling networks in diverse plant species;
- Evolutionary divergence in hormone pathways through phylogenetic studies of hormone receptors and signaling components across different plant lineages;
- Hormone-mediated regulation of plant traits, elucidating the roles of phytohormones in plant bioactivities, such as growth, development, stress responses, plant defense, and plant–microbe interactions;
- Molecular mechanisms of hormone action via structural and functional studies of hormone receptors and their interaction partners;
- Biotechnological approaches for engineering plants with enhanced hormone responsiveness.
Dr. Meng Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- phytohormone
- signal transduction
- evolutionary and functional diversity
- implications for plant science and agriculture
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