GABA Signal Mediating Phenolics Accumulation in Sprouts under Abiotic Stress
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Physiology and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2022) | Viewed by 1687
Special Issue Editor
Interests: phytochemicals accumulation; sprouts producing; seeds germination; gamma-aminobutyric acid metabolism and its signal function; phenolics accumulation; food chemistry; metabolomics
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Dear Colleagues,
Phenolic compounds are complex and diverse plant secondary metabolites which play important special roles in plant growth and development and adaption to the environment and resistance to abiotic stress. At the same time, phenolics have attracted extensive attention because of their antioxidant and anticancer effects on the human body. Therefore, scientific and technological workers have gradually carried out a lot of research on the structure, composition, properties, and functions of plant phenolics and used stress methods to treat germinating seeds or seedlings to synthesize more phenolics. Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a 4-carbon non protein amino acid. It has been widely studied as an inhibitory neurotransmitter in mammals, and it also has the functions of lowering blood pressure and sedation in the human body. In plants, abiotic stress can enhance GABA synthesis. With the deepening of research, GABA as a signal molecule involved in the synthesis of plant secondary metabolites has been gradually confirmed. However, the receptor of GABA in plants has not been clarified. Not much is known about how GABA binding and interactions with proteins occur, how stress is translated into a signal that results in phenolics accumulation and changes physiological and biochemical metabolism, and whether the generated signal is transient or sustained, as well as the molecular basis of GABA regulation of transporters and acceptors that promote the growth of sprouts or seedlings under stress. Hence, this Special Issue will focus on the regulation, signal transduction, and mechanism of GABA in plant phenolic accumulation under abiotic stress.
Dr. Runqiang Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- abiotic stress
- seeds
- sprouts
- germination
- signal transition
- phenolics accumulation
- GABA metabolism
