Algal Morphogenesis and Response to Abiotic Stresses
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: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 727
Special Issue Editor
Interests: seaweed; bryophyte; abiotic stress; development; morphogenesis; gene expression; phosphoinositide signalling; fatty acid metabolism; stress tolerance; stress memory; molecular breeding
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Dear Colleagues,
Due to daily and monthly changes in living conditions, macroalgae are thought to acquire tolerance to these environmental changes to maintain growth and development normally. Understanding the regulatory mechanisms of stress response and development is quite important to breed novel strains of macroalgae with excellent characteristics against exposure to environmental stress under global warming conditions. To date, knowledge about life cycle and morphology of macroalgae have been extensively accumulated mainly for supporting their phylogenetic classification. However, physiological and molecular biological mechanisms of regulating response to environmental stress, development, and morphogenesis mostly remain to be elucidated, although environmental stress-inducible genes and some candidates of signaling factors have been identified.
This Special Issue highlights the latest findings related to the regulation and networks of growth, morphogenesis, and stress response at physiological, biochemical, and molecular levels. Thus, we intend to collect research articles, short communications, and review articles related to the above topics pertaining to freshwater and marine macroalgae.
Prof. Dr. Koji Mikami
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- growth morphogenesis
- polarity stress response
- global warming
- gene expression
- signal transduction
- transcriptomics
- genomics
- proteomics
- metabolomics
- stress tolerance
- acclimation
- regulatory network
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