The Role of Tissue Culture in Enhancing Plant Stress Tolerance and Propagation
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Cell Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 August 2025 | Viewed by 1057
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, climate change has received a large amount of attention from scientists and policymakers because of its impact on agricultural production and food security. Among the consequences of climate change is that biotic and abiotic pressures are becoming more severe, endangering the sustainability of world agriculture. While the spread of weeds, pests, and phytopathogenic microorganisms to new regions and/or host plants is an example of biotic stresses that are observed as a result of climate change, we have also seen significant increases in the occurrence of abiotic stresses such as salinity, drought, heat, cold, nutritional, and heavy metal stress.
The use of in vitro propagation and regeneration systems represents an efficient approach to improving crop yield and quality. Tissue culture systems are known for their effectiveness in rapidly propagating species and cultivars resistant to abiotic and biotic stresses, improving stress tolerance through genetic transformation, in vitro selection, genetic editing and molecular cloning, and as a tool to understand the mechanisms underlying stress tolerance at the biochemical, physiological, and molecular levels.
This Special Issue, entitled “The Role of Tissue Culture in Enhancing Plant Stress Tolerance and Propagation”, aims to compile up-to-date research and reviews on the use of in vitro culture systems to produce stress-tolerant plants, and to advance our understanding of the various mechanisms underlying enhanced resilience to environmental stress.
Dr. Mouaad Amine Mazri
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biotechnology
- in vitro stress induction
- micropropagation
- regeneration
- stress tolerance
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