About this Research Topic
Abiotic stress, such as temperature extremes, water scarcity, soil salinity, and heavy metal toxicity, pose major challenges to plants worldwide. These environmental stresses limit plant growth and productivity, ultimately limiting crop yields and threatening global food security. Plants have evolved intricate mechanisms to respond and adapt to these abiotic stresses involving genetic and molecular alterations. Understanding the genetics, evolution, and molecular mechanisms underlying plant responses to abiotic stress is crucial for developing stress-tolerant plant varieties that can ensure food security in a changing climate. This research topic aims to delve into the latest advancements in plant abiotic stress responses, highlighting the genetic basis, evolutionary patterns, and molecular insights that govern plant adaptation.
The major goal of this research topic is to compile and disseminate knowledge on the genetic, evolutionary, and molecular mechanisms that plants employ to respond and adapt to abiotic stress. By exploring the latest research in this area, we aim to provide insights that could revolutionize the development of stress-tolerant plant varieties, potentially transforming our ability to feed the world in the face of a changing environment.
We invite manuscripts of original research and reviews addressing the following issues, but this list is not exhaustive. We encourage you to contribute your unique perspectives and findings to our understanding of plant abiotic stress responses.
• Studies exploring the genetic variation in plant responses to abiotic stress.
• Evolutionary aspects of abiotic stress adaptation in plants.
• Identification of genes/quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with abiotic stress in plants via multiple strategies, such as QTL mapping, GWAS, BSA or QTL-sequence.
• Marker-assisted selection and genomic selection/prediction related to abiotic stress resistance in plants.
• Multi-omics strategy insight into the plant abiotic stress resistance.
The major goal of this research topic is to compile and disseminate knowledge on the genetic, evolutionary, and molecular mechanisms that plants employ to respond and adapt to abiotic stress. By exploring the latest research in this area, we aim to provide insights that could revolutionize the development of stress-tolerant plant varieties, potentially transforming our ability to feed the world in the face of a changing environment.
We invite manuscripts of original research and reviews addressing the following issues, but this list is not exhaustive. We encourage you to contribute your unique perspectives and findings to our understanding of plant abiotic stress responses.
• Studies exploring the genetic variation in plant responses to abiotic stress.
• Evolutionary aspects of abiotic stress adaptation in plants.
• Identification of genes/quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with abiotic stress in plants via multiple strategies, such as QTL mapping, GWAS, BSA or QTL-sequence.
• Marker-assisted selection and genomic selection/prediction related to abiotic stress resistance in plants.
• Multi-omics strategy insight into the plant abiotic stress resistance.
Keywords: Abiotic Stress, Gene, QTL, Evolution, Genetics, Omics
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