Drought and Poaceae Crops
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: closed (31 October 2024) | Viewed by 3671
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant biotechnology; abiotic stress; sugarcane; reverse genetics
Interests: functional genomics; genome editing and genetic engineering; plant molecular biology and biochemistry
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Dear Colleagues,
Currently, global climate change is a major challenge that includes various climate-driven extremes, i.e., increased temperatures, erratic rainfall, and frequent and severe droughts that put pressure on sustainable agricultural crop production. The Poaceae family represent the most economically important group of crops susceptible to abiotic stress. This plant family consists of monocotyledon grasses, which include several staple cereals, such as maize, rice and wheat, and members such as sugarcane, which is the world’s largest biomass producing crop. These crops are especially susceptible to negative climatic effects, and using novel and integrated adaptation strategies and our knowledge of nature, we must develop more stress-tolerant genotypes that can counter these environmental changes. This Special Issue of Plants will concentrate on novel biotechnological methods of developing drought-stress-tolerant genotypes and improving our knowledge of the wide range of molecular, biochemical and physiological alterations underlying stress tolerance in Poaceae crop plants.
Dr. Christell Van Der Vyver
Prof. Dr. Sanjib Kumar Panda
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Poaceae
- drought
- abiotic stress
- drought tolerance
- biotechnological approaches
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