About this Research Topic
Plant Physiology Challenges! We run the XVII Spanish Portuguese Congress on Plant Biology (BP2021) sponsored by the Spanish Society of Plant Biology and the Portuguese Society of Plant Physiology on the 7 to 9 July. This Research Topic of Frontiers focuses on the Plant Biology sessions in this online meeting.
We welcome submissions arising from oral and/or poster presentations associated with the plant biology sessions within this conference, 12 scientific sessions that cover several fields related to the functioning of plants and their interaction with other organisms in the ecosystem. The sessions focus not only on basic aspects (mineral nutrition, growth and development, phytohormones, short and long distance transport, photosynthesis, etc.) and applied aspects (ecophysiology and plant stress, secondary metabolism, breeding, etc.) of plant biology, but also approach, from the study of the plant, the main challenges we face in today’s society (climate change and agricultural production as main).
We accept submissions of Original Research, Review, Mini Review, and Opinion manuscripts related to the above mentioned aspects. In particular, we welcome articles performed in plant biology and have separated the conference into the following Research Topics:
1. Plant Biochemistry and Metabolism
2. Plant Growth and Development
3. Plant Responses to Environmental Stress
4. Gene Expression and Genetic Modification of Plants
This Research Topic specifically collects articles around the Gene Expression and Genetic Modification of Plants sessions of the conference, particular focus areas include:
- Regulation of gene expression in plants modified either using genetic transformation or the emerging gene editing tools. Papers dealing with studies on the involvement of epigenetic mechanisms on gene regulation can also be considered.
- Application of genetic editing/transformation to elucidate gene regulation in traits of interest on the point of view of crop improvement.
- Special attention to gene regulation and agrobiotech applications in orphan crops and woody species. This is due on one side to the low resources income for orphan crops genetic improvement. In the case of woody species, the difficulties that their long life cycles/low breeding rounds impose to achieve information about their molecular and physiological processes, as well as for their improvement.
External submissions are of course wanted in order to offer the most complete view in plant biology research.
We welcome submissions arising from oral and/or poster presentations associated with the plant biology sessions within this conference, 12 scientific sessions that cover several fields related to the functioning of plants and their interaction with other organisms in the ecosystem. The sessions focus not only on basic aspects (mineral nutrition, growth and development, phytohormones, short and long distance transport, photosynthesis, etc.) and applied aspects (ecophysiology and plant stress, secondary metabolism, breeding, etc.) of plant biology, but also approach, from the study of the plant, the main challenges we face in today’s society (climate change and agricultural production as main).
We accept submissions of Original Research, Review, Mini Review, and Opinion manuscripts related to the above mentioned aspects. In particular, we welcome articles performed in plant biology and have separated the conference into the following Research Topics:
1. Plant Biochemistry and Metabolism
2. Plant Growth and Development
3. Plant Responses to Environmental Stress
4. Gene Expression and Genetic Modification of Plants
This Research Topic specifically collects articles around the Gene Expression and Genetic Modification of Plants sessions of the conference, particular focus areas include:
- Regulation of gene expression in plants modified either using genetic transformation or the emerging gene editing tools. Papers dealing with studies on the involvement of epigenetic mechanisms on gene regulation can also be considered.
- Application of genetic editing/transformation to elucidate gene regulation in traits of interest on the point of view of crop improvement.
- Special attention to gene regulation and agrobiotech applications in orphan crops and woody species. This is due on one side to the low resources income for orphan crops genetic improvement. In the case of woody species, the difficulties that their long life cycles/low breeding rounds impose to achieve information about their molecular and physiological processes, as well as for their improvement.
External submissions are of course wanted in order to offer the most complete view in plant biology research.
Keywords: plant transformation, gene editing, epigenetics, crop improvement, agrobiotechnology
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
