Stress Resistance in Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2021) | Viewed by 2448
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Interests: ecophysiology of fruit crops; effects of environmental factors on fruit growth and quality; plant resistance to pathogenic fungi and protection by mycorrhization; water use efficiency and wastewater management
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Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays plants are exposed to wide range of abiotic stresses, such as drought, floods, UV-B radiation, extreme temperatures, high salinity, contamination with heavy metals, etc. The severity of these stresses is predicted to increase in the future as a result of global environmental change. Predicted increases in temperature and regional changes in water availability will certainly also affect insect herbivory and pathogen attacks. The duration, severity, and rate at which a stress is imposed all influence how a plant reacts. Plant responses to stress are highly complex, involving a variety of temporal scales, from a matter of seconds to evolutionary time scales. We recognize at least three distinct time scales of plant response to stress: stress response, acclimation and adaptation. Many factors including the organ or tissue identity, developmental age, and genotype can affect the response of a plant to stress. The ability of plants to survive the consequences of stress conditions is termed stress resistance. There is no universal way by which this can be achieved and in consequence the different components of stress resistance have been classified in different ways by different authors. The understanding of the effects of stress on plants is vital for improved management practices and breeding efforts in agriculture and for predicting the fate of natural vegetation under climate change.
Open-access journals are a way to bring the latest research outcomes to a broad range of readers, as opposed to just specialized researchers. Special issues of journals can be a collection of otherwise dispersed information and enhance intensive discussion on the issues of focus. We therefore decided to open a Special Issue focused on Stress Resistance in Plants in the journal Plants. This Special Issue will accept papers from a broad scope of interdisciplinary research on plant stress resistance ranging from basic molecular biology to breeding. Ecological and meteorological studies in this area fall within the scope. Original research papers, methods, reviews, and perspectives are also welcome.
Particularly welcome are research papers on the following topics:
- Plants resistance to environmental change;
- Drought resistance and plant strategies to increase water-use efficiency in crop plants;
- Survival ability of Mediterranean plants;
- Improved plant resistance to drought promoted by the root‐associated microbiome;
- Salinity resistance and plant growth;
- Resistance to photo-oxidative stress induced by UV-B radiation and repair mechanisms;
- Molecular and cellular responses to flooding stress;
- Response of oxidative stress defence systems
- Multiple stress-responsive genes in crop plants;
- Plant resistance mechanisms to air pollutants;
- how plants cope with ozone pollution;
- Plant strategies to survive in heavy-metal contaminated soils;
- Impacts of wastewater irrigation of plants;
- Plant resistance to herbivory and increased plant performance.
Dr. Eunice Areal Bacelar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- environmental change
- drough resistance
- water-use efficiency
- sclerophyllous plants
- ozone pollution
- photo-oxidative UV-B stress
- gene regulation
- root‐associated microbiome
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