DNA Damage Signaling and Repair Mechanisms in Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 354
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Radiation Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology, 217 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34113, Korea
Interests: plant DNA damage response and signaling; plant responses to environmental stresses; phytomonitoring and phytoremediation of environmental genotoxicity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
DNA damage and repair mechanisms are crucial for induced mutagenesis and targeted genome editing as well as evolution in plants. DNA damage responses (DDR) in plants appear as cell cycle arrest, endoreduplication, DNA repair, programmed cell death, etc. DNA damage signaling is mediated by diverse epigenetic modulators/modifiers/mediators and transcriptional factors, which are recognition sensors, signaling transducers, or initiating effectors in DDR. Despite the accumulating evidence on the major plant DNA damage signaling factors, including ATM, ATR, SOG1, RBR1/E2FA, and NAC103, much remains to be discovered in the context of the cooperative or distinctive signaling pathway of transcriptional factors and epigenetic regulators for each DDR. Further exploring DNA damage signaling and DNA repair in plants can not only facilitate advanced technologies of mutation breeding for food and agricultural industries, but also disclose evolutionary secrets. This Special Issue will contribute to deepen our knowledge of DNA damage signaling and DNA repair mechanisms in plants by exploring or highlighting the new functions of plant-specific transcription factors and epigenetic regulators in plant DDR to genotoxicity.
Dr. Jin-Hong Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- DNA damage
- DNA repair
- DNA damage response
- DNA damage signaling
- epigenetic regulator
- chromatin
- genome instability
- genotoxicity
