Heat stress negatively affects plant growth and development, as well as plant physiological and biochemical processes. Plants exposed to high temperatures (heat stress) may suffer severe, sometimes lethal, adverse effects. To cope with such conditions, plants have evolved various mechanisms to mitigate the suffering and damage. However, climate warming has aggravated heat stress, posing a major threat to crop productivity worldwide. In this context, understanding how plants respond to heat stress is of great importance and may help us better prepare for the warmer future.
This Research Topic aims to incorporate the morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecular responses of various plants to heat stress and to understand the different thermal response systems at the cellular, tissue, organ, and whole plant level. It is also important to delve into the transcriptional, metabolic, and genetic mechanisms underlying plant responses to heat stress, including genes, transcription factors, non-coding RNAs, and metabolites involved in the heat response pathways and molecular networks.
We welcome submissions of original research, reviews and mini-reviews on plant responses, mitigation, and tolerance to heat stress from molecular to whole plant levels. The scope of the Research Topic includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:
• Plant growth and development as well as crop yield and quality under heat stress.
• Morphological, physiological and biochemical responses to heat stress in plants.
• Genomics, transcriptomics, and molecular analyses of plants in response to heat.
• Gene identification and functional analysis in heat responses and tolerance.
• Phytohormone mediated heat responses and tolerance.
• Gene editing approaches for the development of heat-tolerant transgenic plants.
• Heat shock proteins, molecular chaperones, and heat shock transcription factors (HSFs).
• Oxidative stress induced by high temperature.
• Plant responses to a combination of heat stress and other stresses.
• Photosynthesis and other primary processes under heat stress.
• Mitigation of heat stress and enhanced tolerance using temperature priming or melatonin treatments.
• Plant responses to heat/warming at the individual, population, community, and ecosystem levels.
• Practical insights into increasing crop productivity under heat stress.
Heat stress negatively affects plant growth and development, as well as plant physiological and biochemical processes. Plants exposed to high temperatures (heat stress) may suffer severe, sometimes lethal, adverse effects. To cope with such conditions, plants have evolved various mechanisms to mitigate the suffering and damage. However, climate warming has aggravated heat stress, posing a major threat to crop productivity worldwide. In this context, understanding how plants respond to heat stress is of great importance and may help us better prepare for the warmer future.
This Research Topic aims to incorporate the morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecular responses of various plants to heat stress and to understand the different thermal response systems at the cellular, tissue, organ, and whole plant level. It is also important to delve into the transcriptional, metabolic, and genetic mechanisms underlying plant responses to heat stress, including genes, transcription factors, non-coding RNAs, and metabolites involved in the heat response pathways and molecular networks.
We welcome submissions of original research, reviews and mini-reviews on plant responses, mitigation, and tolerance to heat stress from molecular to whole plant levels. The scope of the Research Topic includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:
• Plant growth and development as well as crop yield and quality under heat stress.
• Morphological, physiological and biochemical responses to heat stress in plants.
• Genomics, transcriptomics, and molecular analyses of plants in response to heat.
• Gene identification and functional analysis in heat responses and tolerance.
• Phytohormone mediated heat responses and tolerance.
• Gene editing approaches for the development of heat-tolerant transgenic plants.
• Heat shock proteins, molecular chaperones, and heat shock transcription factors (HSFs).
• Oxidative stress induced by high temperature.
• Plant responses to a combination of heat stress and other stresses.
• Photosynthesis and other primary processes under heat stress.
• Mitigation of heat stress and enhanced tolerance using temperature priming or melatonin treatments.
• Plant responses to heat/warming at the individual, population, community, and ecosystem levels.
• Practical insights into increasing crop productivity under heat stress.