Abiotic Stress Signaling in Cereals, Especially Wheat
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: closed (31 July 2024) | Viewed by 10753
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Interests: calcium signaling; ion transport; oxygen deficiency; salt stress; stress tolerance
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Dear Colleagues,
The ongoing climate changes have serious impacts on plant growth and development at molecular, cellular and organism levels. During temporary flooding or persisting high seawater levels, oxygen deficiency often occurs in the soil. Global warming will give rise to higher evaporation, resulting in dry and saline soils. Together with low precipitation, these changes might create drought, osmotic and salt stresses, as well as temperature stress encountered by plants. For the cultivation of wheat and other crops, all these stresses have serious economic effects. Wheat is a globally important cereal crop, the second most produced for human consumption.
To make plants resistant to these types of stresses through the application of genetic engineering, it is important to improve our knowledge on how plants sense stress, and how they transmit signals related to stress and improve their tolerance by physiological and metabolic adaptations. Calcium is an important second messenger for all abiotic stresses, which induce a transient or sustained Ca2+ increase in the cytosol. The elevation in cytosolic Ca2+ is linked to the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and abscisic acid (ABA), and leads to complex downstream reactions within the local target cell but also occurring as a result of calcium waves propagating to distal plant parts. Recent findings suggest that glutamate and other amino acids might be involved in this distal signaling, but the understanding on this matter is still scarce. Calcium signaling is also generated intracellularly in the apoplast, nucleus and other cell organelles. Knowledge on how the cytosolic and organellar signals are connected with the distal calcium fluxes is still insufficient, requiring further investigation.
Dr. Sylvia Lindberg
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- abiotic stress
- calcium
- signaling
- stress sensors
- wheat
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