Dear Colleagues,

Both in natural and agricultural habitats, plants are continuously exposed to a broad variety of environmental stressors—low water availability and resulting drought, flooding and accompanying hypoxia, high soil salinity, over-irradiation in ultraviolet and visible spectra, extremely high or low temperatures, as well as different combinations of these. Due to the oncoming climate changes, these factors increasingly contribute to yields and quality of crops. In this context, new cultivars of crop plant, highly resistant to drought, hypoxia, high salinity and temperature, need to be introduced in agricultural practice. For this, however, the molecular mechanisms behind the plant response to different environmental stresses, as well molecular and metabolic alterations, accompanying development of stress tolerance, need to be understood in detail. Metabolomics represents a powerful and versatile tool, giving access to these mechanisms directly at the level of effector molecules–metabolites. Depending on the applied techniques, metabolomics studies might target individual compound classes and pathways or address global metabolome changes in response to environmental stress. Thus, different experimental setups might give access to metabolome snapshots or kinetics of individual metabolites. Therefore, in this Special Issue, we welcome high quality manuscripts—both original research and critical reviews—addressing plant metabolome response to environmental stressors. The work might rely on untargeted or targeted approaches and any techniques, applicable in plant metabolomics, i.e., liquid (LC)- and gas chromatography (GC)-based separation strategies, combined with a broad panel of detection techniques, preferably mass spectrometry (MS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).

Dr. Andrej Frolov
Dr. Claudia Birkemeyer
Dr. Tatiana E. Bilova
Guest Editors

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