Omics-Driven Insights into Plant Stress Responses and Metabolic Reprogramming
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 2026 | Viewed by 96
Editors
Interests: plant hormone; signal transduction; stress biology; tolerance mechanisms; metabolism
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants, including crops, are under constant attack. Between unpredictable droughts, soils turning saltier by the year, sudden temperature fluctuations, and nutrient-depleted fields, plants are pushed to their absolute limits. These are not just abstract environmental issues; they directly impact plant growth, slash yields, and threaten the very foundation of our food supply.
How do plants actually cope with such stresses? To truly understand the survival strategies, we need to stop looking at just one piece of the puzzle. Instead, we should paint a full picture of the situation by incorporating techniques such as transcriptomics to see what genes are turning on, proteomics to track the functional machinery, metabolomics to capture the chemical shifts, and—just as importantly—spatial metabolomics to pinpoint exactly where and when those metabolic changes happen inside tissues. Only by combining these elements can we see how a plant reorganizes its metabolism in real time to withstand harsh conditions.
Hence, it is time to take a systems-level approach. By integrating these multi-omics datasets, we can uncover the key regulatory hubs that drive stress tolerance. And with such knowledge, we will be better equipped to develop resilient, next-generation crops, ensuring that our agricultural systems remain robust in the face of an increasingly inhospitable environment.
We encourage researchers across disciplines to present their recent discoveries, promoting new insights and enhancing our comprehension of plant stress response through metabolic reprogramming.
Dr. Zhiyong Li
Prof. Dr. Erhui Xiong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- drought stress
- salt stress
- temperature stress
- oxidative stress
- nutrient deficiency
- phytohormone
- tolerance mechanisms
- metabolism
- omics
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