With an estimated area of more than 4 billion hectares worldwide, forests are of high economic and environmental relevance as tree species are sources of raw materials and important carbon sinks. Forests also hold most of the Earth´s animal and plant terrestrial biodiversity and, thus, they must be protected. However, these ecosystems are currently under threat, including aging trees, overexploitation and poor conservation/regeneration programs, and the effect of different combinations of biotic and abiotic stresses, which can be aggravated in the ongoing climate change scenario. In this context, unveiling the molecular and biochemical mechanisms behind stress acclimation and determining the role of natural variation is essential for the design of smart conservation and plant breeding strategies. Due to the current massive deposition of genomic and transcriptomic data in public repositories, a myriad of new information became available for functional genomics approaches such as proteomics. Here we invite plant scientists to present their research on the proteomics of domesticated and undomesticated forest trees spanning from cellular to population-wide proteomics. Fields of interest include (but are not restricted to) conservation, embryogenesis, seed biology, plant development, sub-cellular biology, plant-pathogen interaction, defense induction, environmental stress and natural variation. This research topic welcomes Reviews, Mini-Reviews, Methods, and Original Research articles.
Please note: Frontiers in Plant Science does not accept solely descriptive studies - studies which do not progress biological understanding of plant responses.
With an estimated area of more than 4 billion hectares worldwide, forests are of high economic and environmental relevance as tree species are sources of raw materials and important carbon sinks. Forests also hold most of the Earth´s animal and plant terrestrial biodiversity and, thus, they must be protected. However, these ecosystems are currently under threat, including aging trees, overexploitation and poor conservation/regeneration programs, and the effect of different combinations of biotic and abiotic stresses, which can be aggravated in the ongoing climate change scenario. In this context, unveiling the molecular and biochemical mechanisms behind stress acclimation and determining the role of natural variation is essential for the design of smart conservation and plant breeding strategies. Due to the current massive deposition of genomic and transcriptomic data in public repositories, a myriad of new information became available for functional genomics approaches such as proteomics. Here we invite plant scientists to present their research on the proteomics of domesticated and undomesticated forest trees spanning from cellular to population-wide proteomics. Fields of interest include (but are not restricted to) conservation, embryogenesis, seed biology, plant development, sub-cellular biology, plant-pathogen interaction, defense induction, environmental stress and natural variation. This research topic welcomes Reviews, Mini-Reviews, Methods, and Original Research articles.
Please note: Frontiers in Plant Science does not accept solely descriptive studies - studies which do not progress biological understanding of plant responses.