Plant Physiology and Environmental Stresses

Dear Colleagues,

Plant fitness, associated to primary production, is the result of the strict relationship between biotic and abiotic factors—in other words, between plant physiology and environmental drivers. With climate change, such a relationship is hampered in most terrestrial ecosystems, with drastic consequences on primary production and biogeochemical cycles. Manipulative and monitoring studies on plant physiology responses to different environmental drivers, such as temperature, water availability, nutrient content in the soil, CO₂ concentration, salinity, and pollutants, have informed on the future possible adaptation of plants to climate change and their mitigation role. Still, a lot has to be understood, in particular in relationship to long-term responses, combined environmental drivers, acclimation, and/or adaptation in hot spot systems and vegetation feedback on carbon emissions via sequestration and storage in plant tissues and soil. This Special Issue of Plants will highlight the relationship between the different ecosystem abiotic factors and plant metabolism, also in relation to vegetation resilience capacity. We welcome original research papers from the leaf to the ecosystem scale, based on experimental, theoretical, and modeling approaches, as well as review articles.

Dr. Angela Augusti
Dr. Maria Cristina Monteverdi
Dr. Andrea Scartazza
Guest Editors

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