Molecular Responses to Temperature in Plants

Dear Colleagues,

Plants sense changes in the environment and adapt their development accordingly. Temperature is one of the environmental signals that strongly affect plant developmental responses. For example, plants are able to adapt their organ shape in relation to the temperature they experience, a phenomenon called “thermo-morphogenesis”. As such, elevated temperature promotes hypocotyl elongation. Plants also show differences in leaf morphology depending on the environmental temperature they experience at growth. Another important plant trait controlled by temperature is flowering time, the switch from the vegetative to the reproductive phase. Prolonged exposure to winter low temperature (vernalization), with the subsequent increase in ambient temperature during spring, promote flowering. Moreover, rapid increase (heat stress) or decrease in temperature (cold stress) have strong impact on plant developmental responses.

In the past decade researches discover genes ad molecular process involved in temperature sensing but how knowledge is still far from complete.

This Special Issue of Plants aims to collect new insights into how temperature modulate plant growth in model species as well as in crops. Original research papers, perspectives, hypotheses, opinions, reviews, modeling approaches and methods focusing on molecular mechanisms of temperature sensing and (co-)transcriptional responses to temperature fluctuations in plants are welcome.

Dr. Alice Pajoro
Dr. Julia Qüesta
Guest Editors

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