Plant Growth and Development under Metal Stress
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Development and Morphogenesis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2021) | Viewed by 6814
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant responses to metal stress; plant development; gene expression; plant transformation; phytoremediation; phytochelatin synthase
Interests: plant responses to metal stress; plant development; genetic and hormonal control of adventitious root; cyto-histology; epifluorescence
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants are organisms capable of using the inorganic compounds present in the soil as a food source. Among these, numerous metals such as iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), and manganese (Mn) are essential for many biochemical and physiological process, but others like cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), and arsenic (As) are non-essential and have no clear biological function in plants. For both groups, essential and non-essential, the levels can affect the plant growth and development depending on the plant species and chemical status. For the essential compounds, each species shows an optimal concentration range for each ion type, above and below which plants cannot growth properly. There are more questions about non-essential metals: how is the uptake controlled, what are the effects on the plant, what is the tolerated concentration, how can plants neutralize their toxic effects, and more.
Therefore, in this Special Issue, we welcome articles (original research papers, perspectives, hypotheses, opinions, reviews, modeling approaches, and methods) that focus on aspects of plant metal stress including biochemistry, physiology, genes, proteins, metabolites, nutrition, and environment at all levels comprising transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, and epigenomic studies, plant microbiome studies, nutrient and/or hormone interaction stuidies, as well as studies addressing plant health, senescence, whole-plant studies, field trials, and agronomics in model plants, crop plants, trees, aquatic plants, and native species.
Dr. Andrea Andreucci
Prof. Giuseppina Falasca
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heavy metals/metalloids and plant development
- impact of metal stress on plant hormone homeostasis
- metal stress and plant root architecture
- metal stress tolerance and adaptation
- gene expression in response to metal stress
- metal uptake and translocation
- metal transporters
- metal deficiency
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