Molecular Regulatory Mechanisms of Salinity Tolerance 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: closed (1 August 2023) | Viewed by 20965
Special Issue Editors
Interests: saline stress; redox regulation; receptor-like kinases; proteomics; alkaligrass
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Interests: salt stress; cell wall; receptor-like kinases; small peptide; glycoproteins
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Dear Colleagues,
Soil salinization is a serious threat to global crop distribution and yield. Plants have developed complex saline-alkali adaptation mechanisms during the long evolutionary process. Studies on model plant Arabidopsis, rice, and other representative crops have revealed that plants adapt to salt stress through a variety of strategies, such as enhancing ion and osmotic homeostasis, reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenging, maintaining K+ uptake, limiting Na+ entry, as well as increasing Na+ exclusion and compartmentalization. In-depth understanding of the molecular mechanisms of plant saline-alkali responses using molecular genetics and multi-omics approaches will lay a foundation for molecular design breeding of salt-tolerant crops.
Areas of interest in this special issue include: salinity sensing and signaling components, regulation of ROS homeostasis and redox, photosynthetic regulation of salt adaptation, signaling and metabolic networks based on multi-omics, epigenetic chromatin modification on salinity tolerance, post-translational modification of salt stress-responsive kinases, Na+ transport and detoxification pathways, cell wall integrity under salt stress, specific salinity responses in crops or trees, spatiotemporal specificity of salt response revealed by single-cell omics, and engineering salt tolerance in crops.
Prof. Dr. Shaojun Dai
Prof. Dr. Chunzhao Zhao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- salinity tolerance
- ion transport
- signal transduction
- cell wall integrity
- crops
- trees
- omics
- redox regulation
- post-translational modification
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