Nitric Oxide Signalling and Metabolism in Plants 2023
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 (15 April 2024) | Viewed by 8611
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Interests: plant mitochondria; alternative oxidase; respiratory carbon metabolism; photorespiration; environmental and stress biology; interactions of respiration and photosynthesis; plant responses to global change; plant molecular genetics; plant epigenetics; mitochondrial stress-signaling; reactive oxygen and nitrogen species; anaerobic metabolism; cellular energetics; theoretical biology
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Interests: signaling molecules (hydrogen gas, nitric oxide, hydrogen sulfide and carbon monoxide); plant hormones (abscisic acid, ethylene, brassinolide, gibberellin and strigolactone); abiotic stress (drought, salt and cadmium); adventitious roots; fruit ripening; cut flowers
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Interests: fruit and vegetable antioxidants; reactive oxygen and nitrogen species; fruit ripening; transcriptomics; proteomics; metabolomics
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Dear Colleagues,
Nitric oxide (NO) is an unstable free-radical gas which consists of one nitrogen and one oxygen atom. An explosion of research in plant NO biology during the last two decades has revealed that it is not just as a free radical released from the toxic byproducts of oxidative metabolism but that it also helps in plant sustenance when exposed to several abiotic stresses from the beneficial role of NO in plants. It also has a role as a signal molecule and transducer that functions in numerous plant growth and development processes, ranging from seed germination to root development to blossom. Some investigations have highlighted the crosstalk of NO with other gas signal molecules as well as plant hormones, such as hydrogen gas, hydrogen sulfide, auxins, gibberellins, abscisic acid, cytokinins, ethylene, salicylic acid and jasmonic acid, under normal conditions or diverse stresses. Research on NO-mediated S-nitrosylation of specific proteins and specific S-nitrosylation sites has also been carried out. This knowledge allows researchers to explain the effect and mechanism of NO in fields such as plant growth and development, abiotic stress, fruit, cut-flower, and several others.
The current Special Issue of IJMS (International Journal of Molecular Sciences) represents an excellent platform for the discussion of recent developments in this field, focusing attention on novel aspects of nitric oxide in plants from metabolism, signal pathway, and genes regulation to protein modification. Studies on fundament and molecule aspects are welcome that can synergically merge in the platform to provide a comprehensive coverage of the field.
Prof. Dr. Abir U. Igamberdiev
Prof. Dr. Weibiao Liao
Prof. Dr. José M. Palma
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant growth and development
- postharvest
- abiotic stress
- fruit ripening
- cut-flower
- signal interactions
- signal pathways
- protein modification
- gene regulation
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