Proteomics to Unravel Plant Adaptation, Acclimation or Vulnerability to Stress and Diseases

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue “Proteomics to Unravel Plant Adaptation, Acclimation or Vulnerability to Stress and Diseases” will focus on how plant proteomes evolve and change when plants are subjected to stress or diseases, as a lot has still to be explored on how plants cope with the harsh environment surrounding them. Crucial lessons have to be learnt to improve the quality and yield of crops subjected to increased temperatures, salinity stress, drought, pests, and microbial diseases, in order to cope with the constraints associated with climate change, the main of which is the reduction of arable land, while supporting the increased pressure to produce a sufficient amount of safe food in a sustainable manner. In the last two decades, plant proteomics has established itself as a new discipline. This has been made possible by the increasing number of available plant genomes, since the first sequenced genome of the diploid model plant Arabidopsis thaliana published in 2000, shortly followed by the rice genome in 2002. Together with the tremendous advancement of mass spectrometry, it is now possible to study the proteomes of many food and utility crops and other photosynthetic organisms relevant to the safeguard of our planet. We believe that plant proteomics will further advance knowledge in areas where other omics are ineffective, allowing to decipher plants’ perception of the environment and plant–pests and plant–pathogens interactions.

This Special Issue of Proteomes welcomes submissions of original research articles, as well as review and opinion papers, that aim at unraveling the molecular and physiological processes by which plants respond to environmental stimuli, in particular during stress or disease, with the use of proteomics tools or in combination with other “omics” tools. Technical developments relevant for plant proteomics analyses are also welcomed. 

Dr. Laurence Bindschedler
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Wienkoop
Prof. Dr. Dominique Job
Guest Editors

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• Omics data integration
• Plant physiology and evolution
• Plant stress
• Plant disease
• Plant pathogens
• Plant interactions with their environment
• Plant proteomics
• Quantitative proteomics
• Protein post-translational modifications