Advancing Abiotic Stress Resilience in Plants: Mechanisms, Solutions, and Practical Applications
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 August 2026 | Viewed by 1
Special Issue Editors
Interests: protein kinases; protein phosphorylation; histone modification; epigenetic regulation; abscisic acid signaling; abiotic stress; quantitative proteomics
Interests: biotic and abiotic stress; priming; biostimulants; crop production; biochemistry; transcriptomics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants are frequently exposed to various abiotic stresses, such as drought, flood, heat, cold, and salinity, negatively impacting their growth, development, and productivity. As global climate change accelerates, plants encounter more frequent and severe abiotic stresses. Therefore, enhancing plant resilience to abiotic stress is essential for sustaining plant productivity and ensuring global food security. This special issue in Plants aims to deepen our understanding of the physiological, biochemical, and molecular (genetic, epigenetic, transcriptomic, and proteomic) mechanisms underlying abiotic stress resilience in plants. This special issue features the latest development of innovative strategies for engineering abiotic stress resistance, employing genetic engineering, genome editing, and other biotechnological methods to introduce multiple stress-resistant genes and modify regulatory networks. Furthermore, this special issue highlights technologies and solutions that can enhance the resilience of plants to abiotic stress, such as using biostimulants, plant growth regulators, beneficial microorganisms, chemical priming, seed priming, soil amendments, and nanotechnology to provide practical solutions for improving plant abiotic stress resistance in agricultural settings. We welcome submissions of original research articles and integrative reviews that provide novel insights, experimental data, or practical solutions related to these topics. By integrating these research findings, we hope to foster comprehensive strategies and practical applications for improving plant abiotic stress resistance.
Dr. Jiaxu Li
Dr. Juan Cristo Luis Jorge
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- abiotic stress
- stress resilience
- genetic engineering
- transcriptomics
- proteomics
- chemical application
- chemical priming
- biotechnology
- nanotechnology
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