Cereals are grown for their edible components. The most important major crops are wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, barley, oats, and millet. Grains are an essential nutrient source in both developed and developing countries. However, the uses of these crops are diverse. Atmospheric, soil, water, and related factors are the major abiotic stresses affecting modern agricultural systems. These plants have evolved to live in environments where they are frequently exposed to a variety of stressors such as drought, salt, high temperature, mineral toxicity, and lack of water. For decades, researchers have been working to unravel the mechanisms of abiotic stresses to increase the corresponding tolerance of plants for crop production, especially in agriculture. Understanding the molecular confounding of plant responses to various stresses is important for creating opportunities to develop stress-tolerant crops.
Cereals have evolved a number of complex mechanisms for tolerance under abiotic stress conditions. These mechanisms contribute to greater physiological performance through stress perception, signal transduction, transcriptional activation of stress-responsive target genes, and synthesis of stress-related proteins, metabolites, and other molecules. Exploration, innovation, and utilization of elite germplasm and gene resources in Cereals are critical for developing a number of abiotic stress tolerant Cereal cultivars. Integrating multi-omic-based techniques with conventional breeding efforts could vastly improve the efficiency of screening traits associated with abiotic stress tolerance. It is, therefore, imperative to accelerate the efforts to unravel the mechanisms underlying abiotic stress tolerance in Cereals.
The scope of this Research Topic is to collect the recent advances and knowledge on physiological, molecular, and genetic mechanisms underlying the adaptation of Cereals to abiotic stresses. It will include contributions covering physiological, molecular, biochemical, and multi-omic approaches.
We welcome submissions of original research, reviews, and methods, including but not limited to studies on the following topics:
- Breeding for resistance to abiotic stress
- Mechanistic insights of Cereals responses to abiotic stress
- Cereals breeding towards stress-tolerant crop varieties by developing molecular markers
and high-throughput approaches
- Cereals' unique molecular, biochemical, and physiological responses to abiotic stresses
- Phenotyping for abiotic stress tolerance in Cereals
- Multi-omics analysis for Cereals improvement in response to abiotic stress
Cereals are grown for their edible components. The most important major crops are wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, barley, oats, and millet. Grains are an essential nutrient source in both developed and developing countries. However, the uses of these crops are diverse. Atmospheric, soil, water, and related factors are the major abiotic stresses affecting modern agricultural systems. These plants have evolved to live in environments where they are frequently exposed to a variety of stressors such as drought, salt, high temperature, mineral toxicity, and lack of water. For decades, researchers have been working to unravel the mechanisms of abiotic stresses to increase the corresponding tolerance of plants for crop production, especially in agriculture. Understanding the molecular confounding of plant responses to various stresses is important for creating opportunities to develop stress-tolerant crops.
Cereals have evolved a number of complex mechanisms for tolerance under abiotic stress conditions. These mechanisms contribute to greater physiological performance through stress perception, signal transduction, transcriptional activation of stress-responsive target genes, and synthesis of stress-related proteins, metabolites, and other molecules. Exploration, innovation, and utilization of elite germplasm and gene resources in Cereals are critical for developing a number of abiotic stress tolerant Cereal cultivars. Integrating multi-omic-based techniques with conventional breeding efforts could vastly improve the efficiency of screening traits associated with abiotic stress tolerance. It is, therefore, imperative to accelerate the efforts to unravel the mechanisms underlying abiotic stress tolerance in Cereals.
The scope of this Research Topic is to collect the recent advances and knowledge on physiological, molecular, and genetic mechanisms underlying the adaptation of Cereals to abiotic stresses. It will include contributions covering physiological, molecular, biochemical, and multi-omic approaches.
We welcome submissions of original research, reviews, and methods, including but not limited to studies on the following topics:
- Breeding for resistance to abiotic stress
- Mechanistic insights of Cereals responses to abiotic stress
- Cereals breeding towards stress-tolerant crop varieties by developing molecular markers
and high-throughput approaches
- Cereals' unique molecular, biochemical, and physiological responses to abiotic stresses
- Phenotyping for abiotic stress tolerance in Cereals
- Multi-omics analysis for Cereals improvement in response to abiotic stress
