Signal Transduction and Molecular Regulation of Plant Senescence and Cell Death
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2025 | Viewed by 449
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant senescence; signal transduction; regulatory network; source–sink relationship; crop plant; yield improvement
Interests: rice leaf senescence; (a)biotic stress biology; transcriptional regulation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plant senescence, the last stage of plant development, is a type of postmitotic senescence and is characterized by the functional transition from nutrient assimilation to nutrient remobilization, which is essential for plants’ fitness. The initiation and progression of plant senescence are regulated by a variety of internal and external factors such as age, phytohormones, and environmental stresses. Due to the significant impact of leaf senescence on photosynthesis, nutrient remobilization, and stress responses, much effort has been made in devising strategies based on known senescence regulatory mechanisms to manipulate the initiation and progression of leaf senescence, aiming for higher yield, better quality, or improved horticultural performance in crop plants. Up to now, even though impressive progress has been made in the identification and functional analysis of a large number of senescence associated genes (SAGs) in plants, many urgent scientific questions remain in this field, such as when plant senescence is initiated or how senescence signals are transmitted between organelles, cells, tissues, and organs, as well as how to best address the molecular mechanisms underlying cell senescence. With the application of single-cell multi-omics analyses and gene editing technologies such as CRISPR/Cas9, the precise mechanisms governing cell senescence will be deciphered, and a wide variety of genome-modified stay-green crops will be developed and commercialized in the foreseeable future.
This Special Issue aims to collect articles and mini-reviews on the following topics: (1) new discoveries in the multiple layers of regulation of leaf senescence; (2) recent progress in the regulation of leaf senescence by classical and peptide hormones; (3) novel signalling components regulating crop organ senescence; (4) new mechanisms for nutrient deficiency-induced leaf senescence; and (5) the latest breakthroughs in leaf senescence research methods and techniques.
Prof. Dr. Ying Miao
Dr. Xiangzi Zheng
Prof. Dr. Zhonghai Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant senescence
- signal transduction
- source–sink transport
- yield improvement
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