Selected Papers from the International Conference on Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology (Plant Interactions with the Environment)

A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Physiology and Metabolism".

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1. Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, 139 Ruski Blvd., 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2. Department of Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology, Plovdiv University “Paisii Hilendarski”, 24 Tsar Assen str., 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Interests: abiotic stress; desiccation tolerance; drought; oxidative stress; resurrection plants
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1. Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, 139 Ruski Blvd., 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2. Department of Plant Physiology, Biochemistry and Genetics, Agricultural University, 12 Mendeleev Str., 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Interests: abiotic stresses; plant biochemistry; signal transduction
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As sessile organisms, plants are extremely dependent on the surrounding conditions. Therefore, they have evolved elaborate systems to percept and integrate the information from all sorts of environmental cues in order to ensure their survival and optimal adaptation. On one hand, they rely on powerful defense mechanisms to protect themselves from stressors of both abiotic and biotic origin. On the other hand, they coordinate their growth and developmental processes based on decoding the information from multiple internal and external factors like circadian rhythms, temperature, light intensity, day length, etc. All these interactions between plants and their environment are of crucial significance from an agricultural point of view, since they determine the performance of crops.

The current Special Issue encourages authors registered for ICPSBB 2021 to submit original research that focuses on various fundamental and practical aspects of the communication of plants with their surroundings. Since the conference is devoted to systems biology and biotechnology, manuscripts that include such approaches will be favored.

Prof. Dr. Tsanko S. Gechev
Dr. Veselin Petrov
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Keywords

  • biotic and abiotic stresses
  • adaptation
  • plant responses
  • signaling
  • growth and development
  • allelopathy

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Double Haploid Development and Assessment of Androgenic Competence of Balkan Pepper Core Collection in Bulgaria
by Stanislava Grozeva, Gancho Pasev, Vesela Radeva-Ivanova, Velichka Todorova, Valentina Ivanova and Amol N. Nankar
Plants 2021, 10(11), 2414; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10112414 - 9 Nov 2021
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This study was designed to assess the androgenic potential of 180 pepper accessions and 11 progenies (four F1 and seven BC) possessing PMMoV resistance in order to complement an ongoing pepper breeding program. The experiment was carried out in 10 replications with 20 [...] Read more.
This study was designed to assess the androgenic potential of 180 pepper accessions and 11 progenies (four F1 and seven BC) possessing PMMoV resistance in order to complement an ongoing pepper breeding program. The experiment was carried out in 10 replications with 20 anthers for each accession in two different induction mediums from 2017 to 2019. The highest androgenic response was observed in culture medium 17-2 but differences between two mediums were nonsignificant. From a total of 191 genotypes, 102 genotypes expressed a potential for direct embryogenesis. Embryo induction was seen to be genotype-dependent and decreased in the following order: Pumpkin > Conical > Bell or blocky > Round > Elongate as the most responsive genotypes with over 10% reacted anthers being observed in CAPS-23, CAPS-29, CAPS-127, CAPS-157, CAPS-169, F1 and BC 887 derived from CAPS-23. The number of regenerated plants was higher in the conical group and least in the round varietal group. Regenerated plants were examined visually and by flow cytometry for identification of spontaneous doubled haploids (DH) and haploids. Those originating from F1 and BC progenies were additionally evaluated by a CAPS marker targeting L4 allele for resistance against PMMoV. Obtained results revealed two groups consisting of homozygous susceptible and resistant plants. Therefore, use of anther culture in ongoing breeding will greatly facilitate the pepper genetic improvement. Full article
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