Multifaceted Response of Plants to Abiotic Stress Factors
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 11
Special Issue Editor
Interests: adaptation to stress; drought, salinity and heavy metal stresses; metabolism of abscisic acid, ureides, and amino acids
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Changing environmental conditions, caused mainly by intensive human activity, pose new challenges for plants. Plants often have to cope with adverse environmental factors such as water shortage, salinity, extreme temperatures, heavy metals, or flooding. These abiotic stress factors not only negatively affect plant growth and development, thereby reducing crop quantity and quality, but also impair plant reproduction, limiting their diversity. It is, therefore, in the interest of humans to thoroughly understand the mechanism of action of a given stress factor, as well as the mechanism of compensatory responses in plants. Although many of these mechanisms have already been discovered, numerous aspects are still not fully understood.
This Special Issue aims to bring together the latest advances in understanding the mechanisms of abiotic stress factors and the consequent defense responses of plants. Original research and review articles arising from a wide range of approaches—from whole-plant morphological and physiological studies to molecular approaches—addressing stress perception mechanisms, stress-triggered signaling pathways, and downstream transcriptomic and metabolomic responses are welcome.
Dr. Edyta Zdunek-Zastocka
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cold
- drought
- gene expression
- heat
- heavy metals
- oxidative stress
- salinity
- stress defense
- stress perception and signaling
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