Advances in Plant Transporters and Tolerance Proteins
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: 29 September 2026 | Viewed by 5
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the intensification of global climate change, the deterioration of soil environments, and increasing resource pressure, how plants respond to adverse stress conditions (such as drought, salinity, heavy metals, nutrient deficiency, etc.) has become a core issue for sustainable agricultural development and ecological security. Plant transporters (Transporters) and tolerance proteins (Tolerance Proteins), as key executors of cellular substance transportation and stress responses, play a central role in maintaining ionic homeostasis, nutrient absorption, signal transduction, and environmental adaptation. In recent years, with the rapid development of structural biology, omics technologies, gene editing, and bioinformatics, research in these fields has advanced from the analysis of single gene functions to a new stage of system-wide network regulation and precise design. However, how to integrate multi-dimensional data, reveal the dynamic interaction mechanisms of proteins, and translate theoretical achievements into phytoremediation and crop improvements is a major challenge that we currently face.
Dr. Kun Qiao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- heavy metal
- transporter
- antioxidant
- ornamental plants and horticulture
- ion transport
- phytoremediation
- biofortification
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