Climate change, characterized by amplified frequency and amplitude of heat waves, increased evaporative demand and altered precipitation patterns, threatening the productivity and stability of ecosystems worldwide. Previous research identified a number of abiotic and biotic stressors that affects plant physiology and contributes to natural ecosystems decline, as well as crop yield failure. Depending on their intensity and duration, plant species may display a wide range of strategies and mechanisms to withstand environmental stress, including physiological and biochemical responses, as well as modulation in structural characteristics such as anatomy and morphology.
However, despite the great progress made in understanding plant responses and tolerance to environmental stress factors, a holistic and systematic knowledge on the effect of multiple simultaneous and/or sequential stress factors and their interactions, is still lacking. In addition, climate change imposes the alteration of a series of environmental factors simultaneously, as well as intensify the severity of different stressful events, such as drought, floods, salinity and heat waves. Therefore, knowledge of how plants acclimate to multiple stressors is critical in understanding the effects of future climates on natural ecosystems, urban greenery and agroforestry systems (i.e. tree-crops interaction) worldwide.
This Research Topic aims to address the complex biological processes, biochemical pathways, and molecular mechanisms underlying plant response and acclimation/resistance to various biotic and abiotic stress factors, and their interacting effects, in the context of climate change.
Communication between plant scientists on this topic is crucial for improving our understanding of how plants cope with abiotic and biotic stresses, and for improving our ability to adapt to climate change.
We invite researchers across the frontiers of this field to contribute with their innovative research findings and perspectives from different aspects to this collection, including articles of original research, methods, topic reviews, perspectives, meta-analyses, and thought-provoking opinions, which will be discussed in:
- The effects of different biotic and abiotic stress factors, and their interacting effect on plant's physiological performances
- Novel tools and methods used in plant stress ecophysiology
- Ecophysiological vulnerability of plant communities to climate change
- Phenotypic plasticity of functional traits linked to plant physiology, development, or mortality
- Biochemical, molecular mechanisms, and genes controlling drought and heat tolerance in plant species
- Modelling of physiological processes in plants under abiotic and/or biotic stress
- Plant phenotyping for determining tree response to abiotic stresses
- Breeding resilient genotypes for future climatic scenarios
- Selection of tree species and seed sources for climate-resilient restoration of forests
- Environmental stress acclimation from seedlings to mature trees,
- Urban plant ecophysiology
- Climate-resilient agroforestry: plant physiology in agroforestry systems
Authors who are unsure whether their work fits within the scope of this Research Topic are encouraged to contact the editors to discuss the suitability of their submission.
Climate change, characterized by amplified frequency and amplitude of heat waves, increased evaporative demand and altered precipitation patterns, threatening the productivity and stability of ecosystems worldwide. Previous research identified a number of abiotic and biotic stressors that affects plant physiology and contributes to natural ecosystems decline, as well as crop yield failure. Depending on their intensity and duration, plant species may display a wide range of strategies and mechanisms to withstand environmental stress, including physiological and biochemical responses, as well as modulation in structural characteristics such as anatomy and morphology.
However, despite the great progress made in understanding plant responses and tolerance to environmental stress factors, a holistic and systematic knowledge on the effect of multiple simultaneous and/or sequential stress factors and their interactions, is still lacking. In addition, climate change imposes the alteration of a series of environmental factors simultaneously, as well as intensify the severity of different stressful events, such as drought, floods, salinity and heat waves. Therefore, knowledge of how plants acclimate to multiple stressors is critical in understanding the effects of future climates on natural ecosystems, urban greenery and agroforestry systems (i.e. tree-crops interaction) worldwide.
This Research Topic aims to address the complex biological processes, biochemical pathways, and molecular mechanisms underlying plant response and acclimation/resistance to various biotic and abiotic stress factors, and their interacting effects, in the context of climate change.
Communication between plant scientists on this topic is crucial for improving our understanding of how plants cope with abiotic and biotic stresses, and for improving our ability to adapt to climate change.
We invite researchers across the frontiers of this field to contribute with their innovative research findings and perspectives from different aspects to this collection, including articles of original research, methods, topic reviews, perspectives, meta-analyses, and thought-provoking opinions, which will be discussed in:
- The effects of different biotic and abiotic stress factors, and their interacting effect on plant's physiological performances
- Novel tools and methods used in plant stress ecophysiology
- Ecophysiological vulnerability of plant communities to climate change
- Phenotypic plasticity of functional traits linked to plant physiology, development, or mortality
- Biochemical, molecular mechanisms, and genes controlling drought and heat tolerance in plant species
- Modelling of physiological processes in plants under abiotic and/or biotic stress
- Plant phenotyping for determining tree response to abiotic stresses
- Breeding resilient genotypes for future climatic scenarios
- Selection of tree species and seed sources for climate-resilient restoration of forests
- Environmental stress acclimation from seedlings to mature trees,
- Urban plant ecophysiology
- Climate-resilient agroforestry: plant physiology in agroforestry systems
Authors who are unsure whether their work fits within the scope of this Research Topic are encouraged to contact the editors to discuss the suitability of their submission.