Novel Small Molecules: Signaling, Regulation and Potential Applications in Plant Protection
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 445
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant engineering; plant metabolism; natural compounds; valorization of plant products
Interests: plant epigenetics; plant–pathogen interaction; plant immune systems; polyamines; cell wall; chromatin modifications; plant products
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The role of low-molecular-weight chemicals in plant signaling and regulation is usually limited to a set of molecules, mainly phytohormones.
Small molecules belonging to different chemical classes, which are not defined as hormones, have been shown to act as signaling mediators.
To date, only a small fraction of such molecules have been identified and functionally characterized in plants. This is due in part to the limited availability of a methodology to perform the direct in vivo detection of small molecules, as well as the small number of these molecules.
Despite the many challenges associated with the detection and functional characterization of small molecules, recently developed 'omic' technologies have led to an increase in the discovery of metabolites with different structures and roles in signaling and regulatory processes.
This Special Issue will present the latest developments in research on small molecules, such as 3-hydroxybutyrate, nitrous fatty acid, unsaturated fatty acid dienes, free and conjugated polyamines, and cyanogenic glucoside, from signal metabolites in secondary metabolism to molecules that act as exogenous signals and at the same time perform important endogenous functions in plant physiology and development.
The reader will find new small molecules belonging to different chemical classes that are not defined as hormones but have been shown to act as signaling mediators regulating seed germination, seedling deposition, plant development, flowering, and plant–pathogen interactions, as well as act as ‘specialized’ metabolites in plant protection against biotic stress.
This particular Special Issue deals with regulation and signaling via small molecules in the plant.
Prof. Dr. Jan Szopa
Dr. Wioleta Wojtasik
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- novel small plant molecules
- modulators of plant development
- signaling in plant defense and applications
- mediators of hormonal modulation of plant resistance
- development and use as a natural immunity inducer
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