Regulation of Seed Germination and Dormancy
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Development and Morphogenesis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 2914
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant tissue culture; hairy roots; secondary metabolites; metabolic profiling
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: cell separation; abscission; hormone signaling; stress response; transcriptional regulation; functional genomics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Seed germination is a trait fundamental to the lifecycle of a plant that is also tightly associated with the productivity of agricultural crops. It is controlled by interactions of diverse endogenous and exogenous factors. Levels of physical (e.g., coat) or intrinsic (e.g., embryo) dormancy embedded in the seed variably affect successful germination in many plant species. Although studies using a model plant such as Arabidopsis have begun to shed light on mechanistic insights, the regulation of germination and dormancy for agricultural crops still remains to be elucidated. As the availability of recent technologies to understand biological processes expands, this Special Issue will cover physiological, molecular, metabolomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and functional studies that control seed germination and dormancy of agricultural crops.
Dr. Sangun Park
Dr. Joonyup Kim
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- germination
- dormancy
- pre-harvest sprouting
- plant hormones
- light
- climate change
- abiotic stress
- biotic stress, secondary metabolite, signaling
- transcriptome
- metabolome
- functional genomics
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