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EDITORIAL article

Front. Plant Sci.
Sec. Plant Abiotic Stress
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1518678
This article is part of the Research Topic The Interplay of Plant Biotic and Abiotic Stresses: Mechanisms and Management View all 7 articles

Editorial: The Interplay of Plant Biotic and Abiotic Stresses: Mechanisms and Management

Provisionally accepted
Esther Menendez Esther Menendez 1,2,3*Silvio Tundo Silvio Tundo 4,5*
  • 1 Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, Salamanca, Spain
  • 2 Institute for Research in Agrobiotechnology, University of Salamanca, Villamayor, Spain
  • 3 Associated R&D Unit, USAL-CSIC (IRNASA), Salamanca, Spain, Salamanca, Spain
  • 4 Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, School of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Padua, Legnaro, Italy
  • 5 Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and the Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Padua, Legnaro, Veneto, Italy

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    The challenges posed to modern agriculture such as climate change, depleting groundwater resources, and increased global population (Ivanovish et al 2023; Khatri et al 2024), underscore the urgent need for innovative and sustainable strategies to mitigate plant stress. Plants face a multitude of biotic and abiotic stressors, which can severely affect their growth, development, and productivity. Despite these challenges, plants have evolved complex defense mechanisms that are tightly regulated at various molecular levels (Zandalinas et al., 2021;Zandalinas & Mittler, 2022). However, the ways in which biotic and abiotic stresses together influence plant responses at molecular level remain poorly understood. This Research Topic includes comprehensive studies exploring the interplay between biotic and abiotic stresses, with a particular focus on how abiotic stress can either enhance or reduce plant susceptibility to pathogens and pests. The collection includes a balanced mix of original research and review articles, with an emphasis on molecular and multi-omic approaches. Some studies underscore the critical role of transcription factors and kinases in regulating integrative plant responses, utilizing a variety of omics and molecular studies a more 35 applied emphasizing the importance of in situ measurements for practical 36

    Keywords: WRKY transcription factors, Receptor-like kinases, comparative transcriptomics, induced systemic resistance (ISR), drought, flooding, Spilocaea oleaginea, Cytospora

    Received: 28 Oct 2024; Accepted: 08 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Menendez and Tundo. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Esther Menendez, Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, Salamanca, Spain
    Silvio Tundo, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, School of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Padua, Legnaro, 35020, Italy

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