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Plant Biotic and Abiotic Stresses 2024
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Plant Biotic and Abiotic Stresses 2024

A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 735

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Gastón Pizzio

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Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, I²SysBio, Universitat de València—CSIC, 46908 Paterna, Valencia, Spain
Interests: phytohormones; cell signaling; ABA biotechnology; abiotic stress
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Dr. Jie Luo

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College of Horticulture & Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: nitrogen use efficiency; transcriptome; proteomics; woody plant; abiotic stress
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Global food production and the concomitant human survival significantly rely on crop stress resistance. Both biotic and abiotic stresses, exacerbated by climate change, represent substantial constraints on worldwide agricultural output. Employing different agricultural formulations based on biostimulants that enhance tolerance mechanisms to stress emerges as a promising strategy to address this looming threat. Such formulations, from phytohormones to antioxidants, have the potential to enhance plant resilience to stress through osmotic adjustment, antioxidant response stimulation, or immunity activation, among other processes. The development of novel strategies in plant management to enhance both biotic and abiotic stresses is essential to mitigate production losses and augment crop resilience against diverse stressors.

To address plant growth and survival in suboptimal environments, it is imperative to conduct research on the regulation of plant stress. This Special Issue of Life, entitled “Plant Biotic and Abiotic Stresses”, aims to compile original research articles and review papers regarding this matter. Unraveling the mechanisms of stress tolerance in plants creates new avenues for applications in agricultural biotechnology and food production. The ultimate goal is to establish a foundational understanding for advancing stress-resistant breeding in crops.

Dr. Gastón Pizzio
Dr. Jie Luo
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Keywords

  • plant stress
  • abiotic stress
  • biotic stress

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Defense Pathways of Wheat Plants Inoculated with Zymoseptoria tritici under NaCl Stress Conditions: An Overview
by Behzat Baran, Fatih Ölmez, Beritan Çapa and Murat Dikilitas
Life 2024, 14(5), 648; https://doi.org/10.3390/life14050648 - 20 May 2024
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Due to being sessile, plants develop a broad range of defense pathways when they face abiotic or biotic stress factors. Although plants are subjected to more than one type of stress at a time in nature, the combined effects of either multiple stresses [...] Read more.
Due to being sessile, plants develop a broad range of defense pathways when they face abiotic or biotic stress factors. Although plants are subjected to more than one type of stress at a time in nature, the combined effects of either multiple stresses of one kind (abiotic or biotic) or more kinds (abiotic and biotic) have now been realized in agricultural lands due to increases in global warming and environmental pollution, along with population increases. Soil-borne pathogens, or pathogens infecting aerial parts, can have devastating effects on plants when combined with other stressors. Obtaining yields or crops from sensitive or moderately resistant plants could be impossible, and it could be very difficult from resistant plants. The mechanisms of combined stress in many plants have previously been studied and elucidated. Recent studies proposed new defense pathways and mechanisms through signaling cascades. In light of these mechanisms, it is now time to develop appropriate strategies for crop protection under multiple stress conditions. This may involve using disease-resistant or stress-tolerant plant varieties, implementing proper irrigation and drainage practices, and improving soil quality. However, generation of both stress-tolerant and disease-resistant crop plants is of crucial importance. The establishment of a database and understanding of the defense mechanisms under combined stress conditions would be meaningful for the development of resistant and tolerant plants. It is clear that leaf pathogens show great tolerance to salinity stress and result in pathogenicity in crop plants. We noticed that regulation of the stomata through biochemical applications and some effort with the upregulation of the minor gene expressions indirectly involved with the defense mechanisms could be a great way to increase the defense metabolites without interfering with quality parameters. In this review, we selected wheat as a model plant and Zymoseptoria tritici as a model leaf pathogen to evaluate the defense mechanisms under saline conditions through physiological, biochemical, and molecular pathways and suggested various ways to generate tolerant and resistant cereal plants. Full article
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