Abiotic Stress of Crops: Molecular Genetics and Genomics—3rd Edition
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: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 27
Special Issue Editor
Interests: drought; salt; heat; fusarium crown rot (FCR); regulation network; wheat; soybean
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due in part to climate change and increasing water scarcity, drought, heat, and salt, dry-hot winds pose a substantial threat to agriculture worldwide, especially to the productivity of field crops. The time of onset, duration and intensity of drought stress can affect crop production to different degrees, and drought during the reproductive period can directly lead to losses of over 50% in the average yield. Therefore, improving the abiotic stress tolerance of crops is of great importance.
With the advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies and release of crop reference genomes, the isolation of multiple genes and analysis of gene regulation networks has rapidly expanded in recent years. Genome information is laying the foundation for precision genome editing, ushering in a new era of soybean molecular breeding. This Special Issue will highlight abiotic stress responses, genomic research, gene–abiotic stress interactions, gene regulation mechanisms, and stress signal transduction.
Prof. Dr. Zhaoshi Xu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- abiotic stress response
- gene function
- gene regulation
- stress signal transduction
- stress tolerance
- tolerant mechanism
- genomic research
- gene editing
- yield
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