The Genetics of Plant Metabolism
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Physiology and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 5030
Special Issue Editor
Interests: molecular biology; transcriptomics; abiotic stress response; secondary metabolites; cell wall metabolism; trehalose-6-phosphate metabolism; sugar metabolism and signaling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants produce a huge array of metabolites in a tissue- and developmental stage-dependent manner, as well as in response to diverse environmental stimuli. Primary metabolism is involved in central processes of growth and development and comprises all metabolic pathways that are required for the plant to live. Secondary metabolism produces specialized compounds that play an important role in a plant’s defense against biotic and abiotic stresses, as color pigments and are also used in communication and signaling. Primary and secondary metabolisms are intertwined as central carbon metabolism provides the precursors for plant secondary metabolite synthesis and, in turn, secondary metabolites such as phytohormones are involved in the regulation of primary metabolic pathways.
Plants display extraordinary plasticity in their metabolism, which allows them to colonize new environments and adapt to and cope with adverse conditions. Understanding the response of plant metabolism to environmental changes will be crucial to address the societal problems driven by climate change.
The diversity of the metabolic features of a plant is a consequence of genomic evolution and genetic diversity. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) rapidly increases our knowledge of genetic diversity by sequencing genomes of populations or different species and providing transcriptomes of different developmental stages, tissues, or even specific cell types of a plant. Genome-wide expression studies provide insights into the molecular basis of complex traits and identify common genetic variants underlying metabolic diversity. Coupled with targeted and untargeted metabolite analysis or metabolomics, genetic, and genomic approaches can unravel plant metabolism, its regulation and metabolite signaling, compartmentalization of metabolic pathways, and metabolite transport, as well as adaptation mechanisms to environmental stress.
This Special Issue will focus on advances in genetic approaches studying plant metabolism to enhance not only our understanding of metabolic pathways and the underlying genetic basis, but elucidating the plasticity of metabolic regulation in response to biotic and abiotic stress affecting plant performance and resistance by selection or genetic manipulation.
Dr. Alexandra Wormit
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- primary metabolites
- secondary metabolites
- stress response
- genetic diversity
- next-generation sequencing
- GWAS
- metabolomics
- regulation of metabolism
- metabolite signaling
- compartmentalization of metabolism
- metabolite transport
- plant performance
- selection
- genetic manipulation
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