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

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
Guest Editors

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