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22 July 2025
Plants | Selected Editor’s Choice Articles in 2024 from the “Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change” Section (Part I)

All of the articles published in our journal are in an open access format, offering our readers free and unlimited access to the full texts. We welcome you to read the Editor’s Choice Articles published in 2024 in the Section “Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change” in Plants (ISSN: 2223-7747), which are listed below:
1. “Transcriptome Profiles Reveals ScDREB10 from Syntrichia caninervis Regulated Phenylpropanoid Biosynthesis and Starch/Sucrose Metabolism to Enhance Plant Stress Tolerance”
by Yuqing Liang, Xiaoshuang Li, Feiya Lei, Ruirui Yang, Wenwan Bai, Qilin Yang and Daoyuan Zhang
Plants 2024, 13(2), 205; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13020205
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/2/205
2. “The Influence of Climate Change on the Distribution of Hibiscus mutabilis in China: MaxEnt Model-Based Prediction”
by Lu Zhang, Beibei Jiang, Yu Meng, Yin Jia, Qian Xu and Yuanzhi Pan
Plants 2024, 13(13), 1744; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13131744
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/13/1744
3. “Ecophysiology of Antarctic Vascular Plants: An Update on the Extreme Environment Resistance Mechanisms and Their Importance in Facing Climate Change”
by Constanza F. Ramírez, Lohengrin A. Cavieres, Carolina Sanhueza, Valentina Vallejos, Olman Gómez-Espinoza, León A. Bravo and Patricia L. Sáez
Plants 2024, 13(3), 449; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13030449
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/3/449
4. “Creating Climate-Resilient Crops by Increasing Drought, Heat, and Salt Tolerance”
by Tharanya Sugumar, Guoxin Shen, Jennifer Smith and Hong Zhang
Plants 2024, 13(9), 1238; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13091238
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/9/1238
5. “Crop-Specific Responses to Cold Stress and Priming: Insights from Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Spectral Reflectance Analysis in Maize and Soybean”
by Maja Mazur, Maja Matoša Kočar, Antun Jambrović, Aleksandra Sudarić, Mirna Volenik, Tomislav
Duvnjak and Zvonimir Zdunić
Plants 2024, 13(9), 1204; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13091204
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/9/1204
6. “Foliar Application of Amino Acids and Nutrients as a Tool to Mitigate Water Stress and Stabilize Sugarcane Yield and Bioenergy Generation”
by Lucas Moraes Jacomassi, Marcela Pacola, Letusa Momesso, Josiane Viveiros, Osvaldo Araújo Júnior,
Gabriela Ferraz de Siqueira, Murilo de Campos and Carlos Alexandre Costa Crusciol
Plants 2024, 13(3), 461; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13030461
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/3/461
7. “Genome-Wide Identification of NAC Family Genes in Oat and Functional Characterization of AsNAC109 in Abiotic Stress Tolerance”
by Yahui Xu, Jialong Cheng, Haibin Hu, Lin Yan, Juqing Jia and Bin Wu
Plants 2024, 13(7), 1017; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13071017
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/7/1017
8. “Rising Temperatures, Falling Leaves: Predicting the Fate of Cyprus’s Endemic Oak under Climate and Land Use Change”
by Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis, Ioannis Constantinou and Maria Panitsa
Plants 2024, 13(8), 1109; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13081109
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/8/1109
9. “Phospholipid Signaling in Crop Plants: A Field to Explore”
by Lucas Amokrane, Igor Pokotylo, Sébastien Acket, Amélie Ducloy, Adrian Troncoso-Ponce, Jean-Luc Cacas and Eric Ruelland
Plants 2024, 13(11), 1532; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13111532
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/11/1532
10. “Impacts of Drought on Photosynthesis in Major Food Crops and the Related Mechanisms of Plant Responses to Drought”
by Meiyu Qiao, Conghao Hong, Yongjuan Jiao, Sijia Hou and Hongbo Gao
Plants 2024, 13(13), 1808; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13131808
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/13/1808