Advances in Environmental Stress Resistance on Morpho-Physiological Characters in Plants

Dear Colleagues,

The journal Plants will be publishing a Special Issue entitled “Advances in environmental stress resistance on Morpho-Physiological Characters in Plants”. There is an interest in understanding the mechanisms of plant adaptation and tolerance strategies to unfavorable environmental conditions. Plants are continuously exposed to changing environmental variables, such as high light, UV radiation, nutrients, wind, gasses, oxidative stress, dehydration, salt, excessive temperatures, metal toxicity, and other factors are among them. Numerous researchers have been studying the adaptability of a variety of crops, such as varieties, cultivars, genotypes, hybrids, and others to various environmental stressors, either alone or in combined. Unfavorable environmental variables cause negative effects on plant performance and productivity, overall plant die. The ability of plants to sustain their activities under stressed is critical for achieving sustainable crop growth, development and productivity in stressful situations. Exogenous phytoprotectants, which can alleviate their effects on plants, are one of the strategies for enhancing plants' resistance to environmental stresses. Further studies/ demonstrations are required on the morphological, physio-biochemical, and metabolic mechanisms assessed in a variety of plants that are tolerant or resistant to environmental stresses with a view to the functional characterization of stress related genes associated in adaptation mechanisms.

This Special Issue aims to bring together current knowledge on the plant morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecular/genetic mechanisms for resistance and associated problem of environmental stresses in arid and semi-arid areas.

Researchers from the globe are warmly invited to submit original research and review articles on the related topics as:

• Physiological, biochemical, and molecular studies assessing the impact of unfavorable environmental variables on plant morphology, water relations, photosynthetic leaf gas exchange, enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidant, metabolites, and productivity
• Effect of environmental stress on the development of plants
• Studies on the molecular responses to stress related genes and pathways for plant growth regulation and stress resistance capacity

Prof. Dr. Yang-Rui Li
Prof. Dr. Othmane Merah
Guest Editors

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