Extreme environments do great harm to plants. Unlike animals, higher plants cannot move to escape harmful environments. Through time, plants have evolved many defense mechanisms to deal with the damage of adversity, and a large number of protective proteins are induced by these mechanisms. These stress proteins can maintain normal physiological and biochemical reactions of plants under stress by protecting plant cell structure, protecting proteins or enzymes, and eliminating oxygen free radicals, so as to make plants survive in adverse environments. There are many kinds of stress proteins, such as the late embryogenesis abundant protein (LEA protein, including dehydrin) and heat shock protein (HSP) that, as a molecular chaperone, protect enzyme activity and protein structure, and enzymes that maintain plant redox status and eliminate oxygen free radicals. All these proteins play vital roles in maintaining the normal growth of plants under abiotic stress.
How do the stress proteins work? What are their regulatory networks? What are the evolutionary relationships of a certain protein among different species? These are key questions at the core of plant abiotic stress research studies. Here, we propose a Research Topic to bring together the latest advances in the abiotic stress functional genes or proteins field. We will cover themes related to all the functional genes or proteins responding to abiotic stress in a concerted and comprehensive way.
We welcome submissions on the following sub-themes:
-Detailed functional analysis of stress proteins
-Regulatory network of stress proteins
-Bioinformatics analysis of stress proteins in the context of big data, and cross-species evolutionary relationship
Please note that descriptive studies and those defining gene families or descriptive collection of transcripts, proteins, or metabolites, will not be considered for review unless they are expanded and provide mechanistic and/or physiological insights into the biological system or process being studied.
Extreme environments do great harm to plants. Unlike animals, higher plants cannot move to escape harmful environments. Through time, plants have evolved many defense mechanisms to deal with the damage of adversity, and a large number of protective proteins are induced by these mechanisms. These stress proteins can maintain normal physiological and biochemical reactions of plants under stress by protecting plant cell structure, protecting proteins or enzymes, and eliminating oxygen free radicals, so as to make plants survive in adverse environments. There are many kinds of stress proteins, such as the late embryogenesis abundant protein (LEA protein, including dehydrin) and heat shock protein (HSP) that, as a molecular chaperone, protect enzyme activity and protein structure, and enzymes that maintain plant redox status and eliminate oxygen free radicals. All these proteins play vital roles in maintaining the normal growth of plants under abiotic stress.
How do the stress proteins work? What are their regulatory networks? What are the evolutionary relationships of a certain protein among different species? These are key questions at the core of plant abiotic stress research studies. Here, we propose a Research Topic to bring together the latest advances in the abiotic stress functional genes or proteins field. We will cover themes related to all the functional genes or proteins responding to abiotic stress in a concerted and comprehensive way.
We welcome submissions on the following sub-themes:
-Detailed functional analysis of stress proteins
-Regulatory network of stress proteins
-Bioinformatics analysis of stress proteins in the context of big data, and cross-species evolutionary relationship
Please note that descriptive studies and those defining gene families or descriptive collection of transcripts, proteins, or metabolites, will not be considered for review unless they are expanded and provide mechanistic and/or physiological insights into the biological system or process being studied.
