Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Tolerance to Environmental Stresses
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 1634
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Interests: halophytes; salinity; drought stresses; ions; membrane transport; K+ homeostasis; Na+ transport; arsenic transport; plant abiotic stress; plant nutrition; mycorrhiza; physiology and molecular genetics
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Dear Colleagues,
Plants are sessile organisms that are permanently restricted to their site of growth. As a result, they continuously face changing environmental conditions that require morphological, physiological, biochemical, and transcriptional adjustments. During evolution, to compensate for their lack of mobility, plants have developed a wide range of unique adaptation mechanisms to survive under harsh conditions and to rapidly respond to environmental changes. Environmental stresses such as salinity, sodicity, drought, aluminum toxicity, heavy metals, and heat stress can play significant roles in inhibiting or even halting plant growth, development, and reproduction. Moreover, these stresses pose major threats to modern agriculture, negatively impacting global crop productivity.
Therefore, understanding plant stress tolerance mechanisms and improving crop resilience to environmental challenges are pivotal to maintaining agricultural productivity and keeping pace with the growing population, rising temperatures, and decreasing water availability. Evaluating the roles of different plant proteins and cellular components in the processes of stress sensing and the regulation of stress responses are critical tasks that need urgent attention.
Although the amount of data on plant stress regulation, physiological adjustment, and gene-coordinating networks is steadily increasing, many crucial tasks and open questions remain to be addressed in the near-future.
This Special Issue of Plants focuses on the various aspects of the physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms of adaptation to different environmental stresses, tolerance, and regulation.
Dr. Stanislav Isayenkov
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- salinity
- sodicity
- drought
- alkaline stress
- heat
- heavy metals
- plant stress signaling and regulation
- stress sensing
- adaptation to the different stress environments
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