Plant Growth: Molecular Mechanisms
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 June 2026
Special Issue Editors
2. State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetic and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
3. Industrial Crops Research Institute, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming, China
Interests: plant growth regulation; stress-responsive mechanisms; plant hormone dynamics; functional genomics; epigenetic regulation
2. Ministry of Education (MOE) Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Ecosystem Health, College of Environmental and Resources Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
3. Department of Botany, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan
Interests: plant stress physiology; plant biochemistry; transcriptional regulation; hormonal crosstalk; stress-induced growth modulation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plant growth is highly influenced by intricate molecular mechanisms involved in hormone signaling networks, transcriptional regulation, metabolic control, and environmental signal integration. These processes collectively determine how plants initiate cell division, undergo cell expansion, and coordinate organ development. In recent years, major advances in genomic transcriptomics, proteomics, and gene editing technologies have greatly accelerated our understanding of the molecular basis of plant growth regulation.
As the guest editors of this Special Issue of IJMS, “Plant Growth: Molecular Mechanisms”, we aim to highlight the latest discoveries related to hormonal crosstalk signaling pathways, regulatory genes, epigenetic control, and other molecular processes that shape plant growth and development. We welcome all types of submissions, including original research reviews, mini reviews, methodologies, perspectives, and opinion articles that explore the molecular and genetic frameworks underlying plant growth.
Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Sahito
Dr. Afsheen Zehra
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant growth
- hormonal crosstalk
- epigenetics
- CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technologies
- metabolomics
- transcriptomics
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