In the natural environment and habitat, plants are continuously exposed to various stresses. These environmental challenges, such as drought, high salinity, heavy/toxic metals, waterlogging, and temperature stresses, significantly impact plants' growth and development. With time, plants have evolved with a complex adaptation system to react dynamically to environmental conditions, allowing them to adapt to many ecological/environmental stresses at the molecular, cellular, and entire plant levels. The understanding of the molecular mechanisms of plants in response to adverse conditions/stresses has greatly increased with the advances in molecular biology technologies. The dynamic expression of the transcriptome indicates the degree of gene expression in a specific cell, tissue, or organ of an individual organism at a particular stage of development. Transcriptomics and metabolic profiling can reveal the expression at the whole genome level and molecular response to abiotic stress in many plant species, which can help understand the intricate regulatory network relating to plants' stress tolerance and adaptability.
Various environmental factors are driving forces for plants' growth and development. Plants are very sensitive to these environmental factors, which can adversely affect plant development and crop yields by interfering with various biological processes at the cellular and molecular level. They modify the membrane integrity and affect nutrient uptake, and the electron transport chain, changing the plants’ cellular osmolarity, anti-oxidant defense mechanism, yield of essential crops, and photosynthetic activity. With this, the agriculture sector is highly affected, crop yields are decreased and we need to address these issues for ensuring the food demand and supply under the changing environmental conditions and stresses.
In this special issue, we encourage researchers to submit their work as research papers or review articles dealing with the following areas:
• Transcriptomics in response to abiotic stress (i.e. climate change, drought stress, high salinity, heavy metal stress, waterlogging stress, temperature, soil microplastic contamination, soil antibiotic contamination) in plants
• Expression of transcription factors in response to abiotic stresses
• Expression of plant hormones biosynthesis and signal transduction in response to abiotic stresses
• Gene and essential metabolic pathways involved in the response to abiotic stress
• To identify the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) putatively involved in crosstalk between abiotic stresses regulation
• Role of ncRNAs and miRNA in plant development and stress responses and signaling
• Unraveling abiotic stress in seedlings: insight into defense mechanisms exploring a comparative study with physiological and transcriptomics analyses
• The soil-plant feedback under abiotic stresses
In the natural environment and habitat, plants are continuously exposed to various stresses. These environmental challenges, such as drought, high salinity, heavy/toxic metals, waterlogging, and temperature stresses, significantly impact plants' growth and development. With time, plants have evolved with a complex adaptation system to react dynamically to environmental conditions, allowing them to adapt to many ecological/environmental stresses at the molecular, cellular, and entire plant levels. The understanding of the molecular mechanisms of plants in response to adverse conditions/stresses has greatly increased with the advances in molecular biology technologies. The dynamic expression of the transcriptome indicates the degree of gene expression in a specific cell, tissue, or organ of an individual organism at a particular stage of development. Transcriptomics and metabolic profiling can reveal the expression at the whole genome level and molecular response to abiotic stress in many plant species, which can help understand the intricate regulatory network relating to plants' stress tolerance and adaptability.
Various environmental factors are driving forces for plants' growth and development. Plants are very sensitive to these environmental factors, which can adversely affect plant development and crop yields by interfering with various biological processes at the cellular and molecular level. They modify the membrane integrity and affect nutrient uptake, and the electron transport chain, changing the plants’ cellular osmolarity, anti-oxidant defense mechanism, yield of essential crops, and photosynthetic activity. With this, the agriculture sector is highly affected, crop yields are decreased and we need to address these issues for ensuring the food demand and supply under the changing environmental conditions and stresses.
In this special issue, we encourage researchers to submit their work as research papers or review articles dealing with the following areas:
• Transcriptomics in response to abiotic stress (i.e. climate change, drought stress, high salinity, heavy metal stress, waterlogging stress, temperature, soil microplastic contamination, soil antibiotic contamination) in plants
• Expression of transcription factors in response to abiotic stresses
• Expression of plant hormones biosynthesis and signal transduction in response to abiotic stresses
• Gene and essential metabolic pathways involved in the response to abiotic stress
• To identify the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) putatively involved in crosstalk between abiotic stresses regulation
• Role of ncRNAs and miRNA in plant development and stress responses and signaling
• Unraveling abiotic stress in seedlings: insight into defense mechanisms exploring a comparative study with physiological and transcriptomics analyses
• The soil-plant feedback under abiotic stresses