Plants Redox Biology
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: 30 August 2025 | Viewed by 779
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Interests: tea plants; flavonoid; stress physiology; plant hormones; secondary metabolism
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the research of plant redox biology has expanded to all aspects of plant science. As an evolutionary consequence, plants have to maintain an optimal cellular and subcellular redox poise to continue normal metabolic activities, especially under certain stresses. For example, plants produce significant amounts of reactive oxygen species (ROS) as a result of photosynthetic electron transport and metabolism. In addition to the so-called deleterious effects of ROS, vital signaling roles of ROS in plant growth, development and stress responses have recently emerged. Notably, the main antioxidants, including glutathione, ascorbate, and others, are important plant redox components. Accumulating evidence points to the fact that redox signaling interfaces directly with the plant hormone network in the synergistic control of development and its modulation in response to environmental stresses. Furthermore, it is commonly accepted that ROS can cause post-translational modifications of proteins through oxidoreduction, indicating the influence of ROS beyond transcription and translation processes. Therefore, it is important to understand better the redox biology of plants with the aids of advanced genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics approaches towards stress resilience.
This Special Issue aims to collect research articles and review papers on biochemical and physiological aspects of thiol redox regulation, reactive oxygen/nitrogen species, and antioxidant metabolism in the context of plant growth, development, environmental acclimation, and stress responses; papers describing recent developments in the pervasive roles of redox signaling in plant development, integrating metabolism, and plant–environment interactions are especially welcome.
Prof. Dr. Xin Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant–environment interaction
- stress physiology
- plant redox signaling
- plant hormones
- plant–pathogen interaction
- reactive oxygen species (ROS)
- reactive nitrogen species (RNS)
- ascorbate
- flavonoid
- glutathione
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