Horticultural Plants Abiotic Stress Resistance Gene

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 (20 August 2023) | Viewed by 324

Special Issue Editors


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College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Southwest University, No.2 Tiansheng Road, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China
Interests: genetic engineering for the abiotic stress improvement of vegetables

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State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas/Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Apple, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
Interests: regulatory network of apple responding to drought and low nitrogen stress

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Plants are continuously challenged with adverse abiotic environmental conditions, such as drought, extreme temperature, high salinity, toxic metals, etc. This limits the usage of available arable land worldwide as well as crop productivity. The cultivation of horticultural crops has increased globally due to their growing demand, especially in semi-arid and arid regions. Meanwhile, horticulture breeding programs have traditionally focused on improving productivity and quality, as well as disease resistance; thus, modern cultivars have limited tolerance to abiotic stresses. Plants have evolved multiple interconnected signaling chains to regulate different classes of abiotic-responsive genes to adapt to adverse ambiances. Therefore, understanding the genes of abiotic tolerance and the production of a germplasm of abiotic tolerance are important in horticulture research. Although many abiotic-related genes have been identified and have been genetically manipulated to test their effects on improving abiotic stresses, especially in Arabidopsis, rice, and wheat, they are scarce in vegetables. Horticultural crops require more exploitations and applications of abiotic-tolerance genes. This Special Issue of Plants will highlight the functions and mechanisms of abiotic-stress-resistance genes, in addition to their applications for improving horticultural plants’ abiotic resistance.

Prof. Dr. Jinhua Li
Dr. Xiaoqing Gong
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • vegetable
  • fruit
  • abiotic stress
  • gene characterization
  • gene function
  • gene mechanism
  • drought resistance
  • salt resistance
  • heat resistance
  • cold resistance

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