Omics Approaches to Unravel Plant Responses to Habitat Stresses
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 2025 | Viewed by 1
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant adaptations to nutrient stress; nutrient deficiency signaling; crosstalk
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a Special Issue on “Omics Approaches to Unravel Plant Responses to Habitat Stresses” in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Exacerbated by climate change, plants must cope with a multitude of stresses. These encompass biotic stresses, such as herbivores and pathogens, and abiotic stresses, including drought, salinity, heat, flooding, and nutrient deficiencies.
This Special Issue aims to explore the complex and often overlapping plant responses to biotic and abiotic stresses, employing high-throughput omics technologies, including transcriptomics, proteomics, genomics, metabolomics, phenomics, ionomics, and their integrations (multi-omics).
We welcome original research articles, reviews, and perspectives that address the following topics:
- Omics-based approaches to explore plant responses to individual or combined stresses.
- Omics-based approaches to unravel crosstalk between various plant stress responses.
- Emerging omics technologies for the study of plant stress responses.
- Omics-informed translational research to improve crop resistance to biotic and/or abiotic stresses.
Prof. Dr. Claudia Uhde-Stone
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- omics
- multi-omics
- high-throughput technologies
- biotic stress
- abiotic stress
- environmental stress
- crosstalk
- translational biology
- crop improvement
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