About this Research Topic
Plants are always subject to a variety of abiotic stresses, including extreme temperatures, drought, waterlogging, salinity, and alkaline stress, which severely hinder plant growth and development. Under abiotic stresses, plants initiate a series of biological activities, including alterations in physiological and biochemical processes, changes in the amounts of metabolites and proteins, regulation of differentially expressed genes (DEGs), and cooperation of complex interaction networks of multiple genes at different developmental stages. A comprehensive understanding of the molecular mechanisms of plant response to abiotic stresses is necessary to create new crop varieties with higher stress tolerance, as well as to improve the deteriorating growth environments for plants.
The aim of this Research Topic is to provide additional references for understanding the molecular mechanisms of stress adaptation and tolerance in plants. We welcome studies using a variety of traditional and modern biotechnologies, including but not limited to genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, miRNAs, DNA methylation, gene editing, transgenic plants, and other research advances related to abiotic stresses.
We encourage submissions of original research articles and reviews on the following subthemes but are not limited to:
• Physiological and biochemical responses of plants under different abiotic stresses.
• Identification and function analysis of differently expressed genes (DEGs) under abiotic stresses.
• Mechanism of interactions between differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and specific transcription factors in response to abiotic stresses.
• Molecular breeding for improving abiotic stress tolerance in crops.
• Multiple omics analysis of plants in responding to abiotic stresses.
• Epigenetic studies of plant response to abiotic stresses.
• CRISPR-Cas genome editing research for the improvement of abiotic stress tolerance in plants.
• Identification and function analysis of key genes related to abiotic stresses.
• Interaction and expression regulatory networks in plants under abiotic stresses.
Please note that descriptive studies will not be considered for review unless they shed novel insights into the mechanistic or genetic understanding of plant response to abiotic stresses.
The aim of this Research Topic is to provide additional references for understanding the molecular mechanisms of stress adaptation and tolerance in plants. We welcome studies using a variety of traditional and modern biotechnologies, including but not limited to genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, miRNAs, DNA methylation, gene editing, transgenic plants, and other research advances related to abiotic stresses.
We encourage submissions of original research articles and reviews on the following subthemes but are not limited to:
• Physiological and biochemical responses of plants under different abiotic stresses.
• Identification and function analysis of differently expressed genes (DEGs) under abiotic stresses.
• Mechanism of interactions between differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and specific transcription factors in response to abiotic stresses.
• Molecular breeding for improving abiotic stress tolerance in crops.
• Multiple omics analysis of plants in responding to abiotic stresses.
• Epigenetic studies of plant response to abiotic stresses.
• CRISPR-Cas genome editing research for the improvement of abiotic stress tolerance in plants.
• Identification and function analysis of key genes related to abiotic stresses.
• Interaction and expression regulatory networks in plants under abiotic stresses.
Please note that descriptive studies will not be considered for review unless they shed novel insights into the mechanistic or genetic understanding of plant response to abiotic stresses.
Keywords: functional analysis, abiotic stresses, molecular mechanism, differentially expressed genes (DEGs), omics
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