The Influencing Factors of Nutrients and Metabolites in Plants
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 August 2026 | Viewed by 1552
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Interests: plant engineering; plant biochemistry; food structure; biophysical mechanisms; food processing; food preservation; food chemistry; food quality; food analysis; food safety; food science and technology; food processing and engineering; data mining; chemometrics; molecular structure
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants continually modulate nutrient uptake, transport, allocation, and assimilation while dynamically reprogramming primary and specialized metabolism in response to fluctuating internal and external conditions. For this Special Issue, 'The Influencing Factors of Nutrients and Metabolites in Plants', we invite original research articles and reviews that identify, disentangle, and quantify the major drivers shaping plant nutrient status and metabolite composition across tissues, developmental stages, genotypes, and environments. We welcome contributions addressing abiotic constraints, biotic interactions, and genetic, epigenetic, and regulatory determinants of metabolic plasticity and homeostasis.
Submissions integrating metabolomics and ionomics with transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolic flux analysis, isotope tracing, metabolic fingerprinting, and high-resolution phenotyping—supported by rigorous chemometrics, multivariate statistics, and multi-omics data integration—are particularly encouraged. Artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches for pattern recognition, prediction, and modeling of complex metabolic networks are also welcome. Work linking genetic variation to metabolic phenotypes using quantitative genetics or gene editing is of particular interest.
Special emphasis will be placed on time-resolved and field-based studies that capture seasonal and annual metabolite dynamics, assess metabolite stability and reproducibility across years or locations, or that link biochemical variation to stress resilience, resource use efficiency, yield, and nutritional quality. Studies addressing climate adaptation, soil–plant nutrient interactions, and the rhizosphere metabolome are also encouraged.
Dr. Lahcen Hssaini
Dr. Eimad Dine Tariq Bouhlali
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metabolic reprogramming
- nutrient homeostasis
- metabolic flux analysis
- plant-environment interactions
- chemometric analysis
- metabolic phenotyping
- stress metabolomics
- metabolic engineering
- precision phenotyping
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