Multi-Omics of Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Horticultural 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: 31 July 2027 | Viewed by 30
Editors
Interests: horticultural plants; high throughput sequencing; genomics; heat stress
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Interests: horticultural plants; abiotic stress; stress memory; plant physiology; multi-omics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Global climate change poses an increasing threat to horticultural crop production, with abiotic stresses, particularly heat, drought, and salinity, critically compromising yield stability and product quality. Elucidating the genetic and molecular bases of abiotic stress tolerance is imperative for breeding climate-resilient varieties. Recent breakthroughs in high-throughput technologies have empowered comprehensive investigations spanning multiple molecular layers, ranging from DNA sequence variation and transcriptional reprogramming to post-translational modifications, metabolic fluxes, and epigenetic regulation. This Special Issue welcomes original research articles, reviews, and perspectives that leverage integrative multi-omics approaches, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, epigenomics, and phenomics, to dissect abiotic stress responses, identify key regulatory nodes, and reconstruct tolerance networks in horticultural crops. We particularly encourage submissions employing systems-level data integration, machine learning-assisted network modeling, and multi-omics-informed breeding strategies. By bridging fundamental discoveries with practical applications, this Special Issue will accelerate the development of next-generation, climate-smart horticultural varieties.
Dr. Xiaqing Yu
Dr. Rong Zhou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- horticultural crops
- abiotic stress tolerance
- multi-omics
- genomics
- transcriptomics
- proteomics
- metabolomics
- epigenomics
- systems biology
- molecular breeding
- heat stress
- drought stress
- salinity stress
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