Climate change is causing increasingly frequent extreme weather events in recent years. This has lead to irregular water and temperature stresses, which consequently alter the developmental progression of various organs (e.g. roots, seedlings, flowers, fruits, etc.) in plants.
Plant responses to changing environments involve a complicated cascade of interactions among genes, proteins, and metabolites that together contribute to plant phenotype plasticity. A holistic interpretation of these molecular events and the impact of these events on plant development is needed to facilitate the understanding of the crop-environment relationship. Large-scale biology makes such interpretations possible by exploring the association among multi-omics datasets generated by the fast-advancing high-throughput technologies. Meanwhile, it also identifies potential gatekeeper molecules that coordinate the multi-layered communications among genomes, transcriptomes, proteomes, and metabolomes, which, with the advent of precision genome engineering technology, aid the breeding of crops with customizable phenotypes.
This Research Topic aims to explore novel insights in crop-environment interactions as well as its influence on plant development from the perspective of large-scale biology, which investigates the interaction or association among different biomolecules. The themes that are expected to cover include, but are not limited to, the following:
- QTL mappings for metabolomes or transcriptomes, or Genome-wide association studies that investigate plant stress responses or organ development under stressful environments;
- The integration of multi-omics datasets to uncover the genetic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolic changes under varying environments and in different developmental stages;
- Exploration of the transcriptional regulatory networks and metabolic networks underlying the plant phenotype plasticity;
- Examination of the findings from large-scale biology analysis using genome editing or other biotechnological approaches.
Climate change is causing increasingly frequent extreme weather events in recent years. This has lead to irregular water and temperature stresses, which consequently alter the developmental progression of various organs (e.g. roots, seedlings, flowers, fruits, etc.) in plants.
Plant responses to changing environments involve a complicated cascade of interactions among genes, proteins, and metabolites that together contribute to plant phenotype plasticity. A holistic interpretation of these molecular events and the impact of these events on plant development is needed to facilitate the understanding of the crop-environment relationship. Large-scale biology makes such interpretations possible by exploring the association among multi-omics datasets generated by the fast-advancing high-throughput technologies. Meanwhile, it also identifies potential gatekeeper molecules that coordinate the multi-layered communications among genomes, transcriptomes, proteomes, and metabolomes, which, with the advent of precision genome engineering technology, aid the breeding of crops with customizable phenotypes.
This Research Topic aims to explore novel insights in crop-environment interactions as well as its influence on plant development from the perspective of large-scale biology, which investigates the interaction or association among different biomolecules. The themes that are expected to cover include, but are not limited to, the following:
- QTL mappings for metabolomes or transcriptomes, or Genome-wide association studies that investigate plant stress responses or organ development under stressful environments;
- The integration of multi-omics datasets to uncover the genetic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolic changes under varying environments and in different developmental stages;
- Exploration of the transcriptional regulatory networks and metabolic networks underlying the plant phenotype plasticity;
- Examination of the findings from large-scale biology analysis using genome editing or other biotechnological approaches.
