Stress Biology of Turfgrass

Dear Colleagues,

Turfgrass is widely used for landscaping, sports turf, and ecological restoration. However, environmental stresses including abiotic and biotic stresses decrease turf quality and also increase the costs of turf maintenance. This Special Issue will be focused on physiological, metabolic, and molecular mechanisms of turfgrasses in response to abiotic stresses such as drought, heat, cold, or ionic stress (salt, aluminum, and cadmium), as well as biotic stresses including insects, parasites, viruses, fungi, or bacteria. Transgenic technology and omics studies based on ionomics, metabolomics, proteomics, or transcriptomics are important approaches to reveal adaptive response to abiotic and biotic stresses in turfgrass species. In addition, improved knowledge of turf maintenance and management in the field during environmental stress associated with new technologies and mechanisms will be included.

The current research topic aims to collect research and review articles involved in, but not being limited to:

• Antioxidant defense systems and reactive oxygen species in turfgrass in response to abiotic and biotic stress;
• Effects of phytohormones and plant growth regulators in turfgrass exposed to stress;
• Roles of secondary metabolites in turfgrass under a stress condition;
• Signal transduction and metabolic pathways affected by stress in turfgrass;
• Key genes and proteins associated with stress tolerance in turfgrass, including transcriptomic and proteomic studies.

Prof. Dr. Zhou Li
Dr. David Jespersen
Guest Editors

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