One of the most significant and common responses among diverse kinds of environmental stresses is the loss of the redox homeostasis which seriously impacts crop performance and productivity. Thorough characterization of the redox systems in plants that consist of several interacting components is crucial to the comprehensive understanding of the systems biology of crops and our ability to develop stress-resilient plant varieties. Presently, we are assessing critically and specifically the interactive redox components and mechanisms that regulate crop performance and yield as an effort to solve the issues of climate change and food security. As an approach to producing climate-resilient stress-tolerant crops, many strategies have been explored in recent times in confining the negative impact of oxidative stress and augmenting acclimatory redox signaling through fine-tuning redox regulatory mechanisms.
This research topic discusses the diverse redox-regulatory approaches to augment crop performance under environmental stresses. In this respect, a special focus goes to summarizing the current understanding of the role defense signaling plays in integrating perception of environmental stresses and transducing it to a response necessary for survival. With the introduction of high throughput molecular techniques, the prospect of expanding our understanding of the impact of diverse defense signaling pathways that work alone or in an integrative manner to regulate the expression of inducible defense genes associated with stress acclimation processes has significantly improved. The basic goal of the current research topic is to explore the different interactive crop redox systems as a molecular criterion to engineer crops with improved resistance to adverse environmental conditions, to frame strategies for controlling weeds, augmenting nutritional status and realizing the genetic yield potential of the crop in field conditions for ensuring food security.
The research topic will explore the broad scope of redox biology, specifically focusing on how this knowledge can be leveraged to improve the health of crop plants. Possible strategies include, but are not limited to, monitoring crop health under potential climate-change-induced environmental threats. The topic will also examine different interactive crop redox systems used to engineer crops with improved resistance to such adverse environmental conditions. We welcome submissions of all article types published by Frontiers in Plant Science that contribute to any of the subthemes below:
1. Unfolding the molecular details of redox defense signaling in the regulation of environmental stress
2. Functional genomics to understand the mechanism of redox signaling
3. Integrative ROS- phytohormone signaling to design stress-tolerant crops
4. Transcription factors in integrating redox signaling stresses
5. Unfolding the mechanism of ROS homeostasis: maintaining the balance between signaling and oxidative damage
6. Redox regulation of plant Immunity
7. Exploring the role of redox homeostasis at the metabolic interface in regulating plant growth and development
8. Engineering stress tolerance in crops by fine-tuning oxidative stress
9. Diverse redox strategies for crop protection
10. Redox biology in biofortification and food security
11. Engineering redox traits for drought, salinity, temperature, heavy metal and multiple stress resistance.
One of the most significant and common responses among diverse kinds of environmental stresses is the loss of the redox homeostasis which seriously impacts crop performance and productivity. Thorough characterization of the redox systems in plants that consist of several interacting components is crucial to the comprehensive understanding of the systems biology of crops and our ability to develop stress-resilient plant varieties. Presently, we are assessing critically and specifically the interactive redox components and mechanisms that regulate crop performance and yield as an effort to solve the issues of climate change and food security. As an approach to producing climate-resilient stress-tolerant crops, many strategies have been explored in recent times in confining the negative impact of oxidative stress and augmenting acclimatory redox signaling through fine-tuning redox regulatory mechanisms.
This research topic discusses the diverse redox-regulatory approaches to augment crop performance under environmental stresses. In this respect, a special focus goes to summarizing the current understanding of the role defense signaling plays in integrating perception of environmental stresses and transducing it to a response necessary for survival. With the introduction of high throughput molecular techniques, the prospect of expanding our understanding of the impact of diverse defense signaling pathways that work alone or in an integrative manner to regulate the expression of inducible defense genes associated with stress acclimation processes has significantly improved. The basic goal of the current research topic is to explore the different interactive crop redox systems as a molecular criterion to engineer crops with improved resistance to adverse environmental conditions, to frame strategies for controlling weeds, augmenting nutritional status and realizing the genetic yield potential of the crop in field conditions for ensuring food security.
The research topic will explore the broad scope of redox biology, specifically focusing on how this knowledge can be leveraged to improve the health of crop plants. Possible strategies include, but are not limited to, monitoring crop health under potential climate-change-induced environmental threats. The topic will also examine different interactive crop redox systems used to engineer crops with improved resistance to such adverse environmental conditions. We welcome submissions of all article types published by Frontiers in Plant Science that contribute to any of the subthemes below:
1. Unfolding the molecular details of redox defense signaling in the regulation of environmental stress
2. Functional genomics to understand the mechanism of redox signaling
3. Integrative ROS- phytohormone signaling to design stress-tolerant crops
4. Transcription factors in integrating redox signaling stresses
5. Unfolding the mechanism of ROS homeostasis: maintaining the balance between signaling and oxidative damage
6. Redox regulation of plant Immunity
7. Exploring the role of redox homeostasis at the metabolic interface in regulating plant growth and development
8. Engineering stress tolerance in crops by fine-tuning oxidative stress
9. Diverse redox strategies for crop protection
10. Redox biology in biofortification and food security
11. Engineering redox traits for drought, salinity, temperature, heavy metal and multiple stress resistance.