Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Genetic Diversity in Plants, 3rd Edition
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 July 2026 | Viewed by 3
Special Issue Editor
2. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Departamento de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia—Sede Medellín, Medellín 050034, Colombia
Interests: plant genomics; plant breeding; genetics of adaptation; population genomics
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is a continuation of our previous Special Issue, “Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Genetic Diversity in Plants, 2nd Edition”.
Plant breeding, plant conservation, and plant restoration efforts urgently demand the development of novel adaptive sources in order to cope with increasing abiotic pressures. However, standing genetic diversity for tolerance to abiotic stress is often lacking from traditional gene pools. Therefore, cryptic pockets of genetic and ecological diversity may provide hidden adaptations, genotypes, and alleles to cope with abiotic pressures. Meanwhile, modern methodological achievements in genomics, molecular biology, bioinformatics, biotechnology, and geographical modeling offer new perspectives on the genomic bases and ecological drivers of abiotic stress tolerance. These achievements may lead to new interdisciplinary areas where plant breeding, restoration ecology, and conservation genetics could converge. Therefore, this Special Issue, “Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Genetic Diversity in Plants, 3rd Edition”, aims to compile innovative research on the exploration, leveraging, and utilization of plant genetic diversity to improve abiotic stress tolerance traits using a diverse array of techniques and perspectives. Ultimately, we envision an interplay among genetic, molecular, ecological, and modeling disciplines to cope with abiotic stresses such as drought, heat, flooding, salinity, frost, soil toxicity, and other related environmental constraints.
Dr. Andrés J. Cortés
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biodiversity
- molecular breeding
- comparative genomics
- abiotic stress adaptation
- genetic mapping
- predictive breeding
- genomic prediction
- assisted gene flow
- plant breeding
- restoration ecology
- conservation genetics
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