Physiological and Biochemical Responses of Plants to Environmental Changes
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 December 2026 | Viewed by 13
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant ecophysiology; photosynthesis; respiration; stomatal regulation; resource use efficiencies
Interests: crop ecophysiology; agricultural water and nutrient management; plant stress physiology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ongoing global change is reshaping plant functioning through multiple drivers. These include not only climate change (elevated atmospheric CO2, warming, heat extremes and altered precipitation regimes) but also land-use change, shifts in management practices, nitrogen deposition, soil degradation, and environmental pollution. Such changes collectively affect varied plant physiological and biochemical processes, leading to cascading consequences from cells and organs to individuals and populations. This Special Issue, titled “Physiological and Biochemical Responses of Plants to Environmental Changes”, will advance our mechanistic understanding of how plants respond and adapt to diverse environmental drivers and their interactions. We particularly welcome studies that broadly link plant physiological, biochemical, and metabolic responses with plant performance, stress resilience, and resource-use efficiency under changing environments. Experimental, observational, and modelling studies on herbaceous and woody species, both crops and non-crop plants, in both field and controlled conditions are all encouraged. We invite original research articles, short communications, and reviews that address processes from the cellular and organ scales to whole plants and populations and contribute to improving our ability to assess and predict plant responses to current and future environmental changes.
Dr. Liang Fang
Prof. Dr. Fulai Liu
Dr. Linfeng Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- abiotic stress
- climate change
- environmental pollution
- plant resource utilization
- plant ecophysiology
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