Challenges of Sustainable Agriculture: Biotic and Abiotic Stresses in Plants

Dear Colleagues,

Plants are frequently subjected to various biotic and abiotic stresses such as pathogens, drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, heavy metals, and ultra-violet light, which may retard their growth, reduce their average yield, and even cause death. Therefore, there is a need to develop stress-resistant plants to minimize the environmental impacts of the productivity and quality of plants under stress conditions. In addition, to resist and adapt to various environmental stresses, plants have developed complex molecular mechanisms that regulate the transcriptional levels of a number of stress-related genes to further control the signaling networks involved in stress responses.

The Special Issue “Challenges of Sustainable Agriculture: Biotic and Abiotic Stresses in Plants” is to present original research articles on the identification of important stress-related genes on the basis of omics or other technologies and reveal the roles of them in the molecular mechanisms of responses to biotic and abiotic stresses in plants. This Special Issue also welcomes innovative articles on genomic and phenomic research applications, with the aim of presenting the latest findings related to the molecular mechanisms of plants’ response to environmental stresses. Critical reviews on these topics are also welcome in this Special Issue.

We are looking forward to your excellent contributions to this Special Issue in Sustainability.

Dr. Yong Zhou
Dr. Xiaolei Fan
Dr. Jianping Liu
Guest Editors

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