Phytohormones and Stress Response in Plants

Dear Colleagues,

An important issue facing plants as sessile organisms is the ability to respond rapidly to environmental changes, including abiotic stresses such as salinity, drought, temperature, irradiance, heavy metals, and biotic stresses such as bacteria, fungi, viruses, nematodes, and insects. Plants have established multiple strategies to cope with these individual/combined adverse effects, in which the complex network of phytohormones signals and their crosstalk capabilities play a key role in helping plants adapt to adverse environmental conditions. This special issue welcomes manuscripts dealing with the fundamental science and future perspectives of phytohormones research. In particular, we welcome research that focuses on the following areas.

• Phytohormones-mediated novel response stress mechanisms in highly resistant species
• Large-scale multi-omics analysis related to stress adaptation
• Phytohormones signal regulation network based on artificial intelligence technology
• Phytohormones regulation under stress

This special issue aims to decipher the complex mechanisms of a large number of phytohormones signaling pathway interactions in response to different stresses based on molecular biology, genetics, systems biology, and other approaches to ultimately advance the field.

Prof. Dr. Hui Chen
Prof. Dr. Qi Wu
Dr. Moyang Liu
Dr. Sinan Li
Guest Editors

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