Growth, Development, and Stress Response of Horticulture Plants/Crops—2nd Edition
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural Science and Ornamental Plants".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 20
Special Issue Editors
Interests: DNA demethylation; abiotic stress; fruit ripening; fruit quality
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Interests: plant senescence; flower senescence; petal senescence; cut flower; ethylene signaling; transcriptional regulation; epigenetic regulation; postharvest
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Interests: brassinosteroid signaling; autophagy; Feronia; plant growth and stress responses; protein degradation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Horticulture plants and their products are necessary nutritional and functional components in human society. The growth and development of horticulture plants are complicated topics. Not only are they regulated by environmental factors but also largely dependent on genetic and epigenetic interactions. Moreover, the balance between growth and stress is essential for the quality and yield of horticultural crops. In recent years, although many studies have revealed that epigenetic regulations are important for fruit ripening, the mechanism behind the dynamic modulation of the epigenome in response to development, growth, and stress stimulations is not fully understood.
This Special Issue aims to investigate the growth, development, and stress response of horticulture plants through methods of molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, and bioinformatics, providing perspectives on the potential challenges of horticulture crop production. This Special Issue welcomes the submission of manuscripts that use horticulture plants as their experimental material to conduct analyses on the genetic and epigenetic molecular mechanisms that are involved in the regulation of growth and the development of abiotic/biotic stresses.
Dr. Wenfeng Nie
Prof. Dr. Fan Zhang
Dr. Ping Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- horticulture
- growth and development
- biotic stress
- abiotic stress
- epigenetic modification
- temperature
- light quality
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