Plant Stress Adaptation Mechanisms: Insight into Molecular Responses and New Biotechnological Possibilities
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: closed (1 June 2026) | Viewed by 2263
Editors
Interests: plant biotechnology; in vitro plant breeding; micropropagation; phytoremediation; genetic modifications of plants; bio-printing
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Interests: plant genetics and biotechnology; plant-environment interactions; secondary metabolites; medicinal and aromatic plants; biotic and abiotic resistance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Much has been learned from studying how wild plants’ morphological, structural and physiological adaptations enable them to survive and reproduce under hostile abiotic and biotic conditions in their natural environments. For example, cacti have thorns to protect themselves against herbivores and have evolved a specialized photosynthetic pathway, the Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM), that permits water conservation in a dry desert environment. The challenges of various forms of stress, such as drought and heat, on crop plants have huge implications for food security worldwide. The many lessons that structural and physiological adaptations in wild plants can teach us might be transferable to crop plants or applicable for the development of new, more stress-resilient crop plant varieties. The aim of this Special Issue is to collect investigations into the molecular mechanisms underlying the responses associated with stress adaptation and resilience in crop plants. In addition, studies that can shed light on new biotechnological avenues to improve plant stress adaptation and resilience are also within the scope of this Special Issue.
Dr. David W. M. Leung
Dr. Rambod Abiri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- abiotic stress
- biotic stress
- epigenetic changes
- genetic modifications
- oxidative stress
- plant hormones
- signaling
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