Climate Change-Related Stresses and Plant Metabolism
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 14 July 2025 | Viewed by 227
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant metabolomics; digital agriculture and plant stress phenotyping; ma-chine learning; controlled environment agriculture and space biology; crop improvement
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change imposes various combinations of biotic and abiotic stresses on plants, which can disrupt photosynthesis, nutrient uptake, and increased susceptibility to pests and pathogens, thus negatively impacting plant growth. Due to changes in environmental conditions, plants are often exposed to new stresses they have not encountered before, so that they may lack the relevant protective mechanisms. These stresses can significantly alter plant metabolism, reducing agricultural productivity and biodiversity. Understanding these impacts and implementing novel stress phenotyping and crop improvement tools is crucial for developing resilient crop species and sustainable agricultural practices. For this Special Issue, we encourage submitting original and review articles on any aspect of the topic relevant to climate change-related biotic and/or abiotic stresses in the context of plant metabolism and its regulation. These aspects may include, but are not limited to, investigating:
- Effects of individual and combined stresses on plant metabolomes and/or multi-omes;
- Effects of soil health on plant metabolomes and stress tolerance;
- How plants produce and use core and specialized metabolites to cope with stress;
- Metabolic and signaling pathways and their components associated with stress tolerance,
as well as developing novel approaches and methods for:
- Plant metabolomics and multi-omics;
- Plant stress phenotyping and machine learning;
- Identifying and manipulating genes and metabolic and signaling pathways associated with stress tolerance;
- Creating climate-resilient crops that can withstand multiple climate-related stresses.
Dr. Eva Collakova
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant physiology and metabolism
- climate change-related stresses
- multi-omics approaches
- plant stress phenotyping
- crop improvement
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