As sessile organisms, plants interact with numerous abiotic and biotic environmental factors. Some environmental interactions such as specific growing conditions, climate factors, intra- and inter-species relationships are desirable to ensure plant survival and promote species distribution. Other environmental factors from natural or anthropogenic origin, which are rapidly evolving due to climate changes, could be fatal and push plants outside physiological limitations bringing them beyond threshold of tolerance. Giving a focus on molecular and physiological responses can help to understand alterations in plant adaptive traits and modulation of their plasticity under challenging environmental conditions. Overall, this topic tends to include findings that carry potential for implication in many practical areas which are dealing with enhancement of plant productivity, preservation of vulnerable species, and finding new interdisciplinary strategies that can produce more tolerant genotypes.
Studying environmental interactions in plants can be quite challenging because interaction between two or more organisms is complex, bidirectional and often influenced by multiplicative environmental conditions. Studies dealing with plant-environment interactions are usually cumulative and do not identify specific molecular and physiological markers involved in the adaptation process under complex multiple stresses. The primary goal of the topic is to facilitate the identification of target gene(s) involved in plant growth and development that are responsible for simultaneous exposure to multiple stressors. Secondly, the inclusion of new approaches in the topic will be useful to distinguish the nature and straight of interdependence between different stress combinations. The final output of topic could be useful to breeders in creating genotypes with higher production under various environmental stimuli.
Submissions that cover beneficial interactions (biostimulators, microsymbiotic interactions, heterospecific facilitation, mutualism, etc.) as well as studies dealing with plant response to adverse interactions (biotic and abiotic environmental stress, plant-plant competition, and allelopathy) are welcome in this issue. The issue seeks results that reveal physiological adaptive strategies in positive and negative environmental interactions, including photosynthetic performance, plant water relations, canopy analysis, phenotyping, stomatal control, chlorophyll fluorescence, etc. In addition, this issue gives a special emphasis on advanced biological techniques for monitoring plant status. These include environmental regulation and gene expression, transcriptome, proteome and metabolome profiling and their integration in the understanding positive or negative plant interactions. Studies supporting the implementation of innovative eco-friendly methods (e.g. plasma technologies) in environmental studies along with advantages and limitations of this technology in this area are highly appreciated.
Keywords:
abiotic and biotic stress, environmental interactions, microsymbiotic interactions, photosynthetic performance
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
As sessile organisms, plants interact with numerous abiotic and biotic environmental factors. Some environmental interactions such as specific growing conditions, climate factors, intra- and inter-species relationships are desirable to ensure plant survival and promote species distribution. Other environmental factors from natural or anthropogenic origin, which are rapidly evolving due to climate changes, could be fatal and push plants outside physiological limitations bringing them beyond threshold of tolerance. Giving a focus on molecular and physiological responses can help to understand alterations in plant adaptive traits and modulation of their plasticity under challenging environmental conditions. Overall, this topic tends to include findings that carry potential for implication in many practical areas which are dealing with enhancement of plant productivity, preservation of vulnerable species, and finding new interdisciplinary strategies that can produce more tolerant genotypes.
Studying environmental interactions in plants can be quite challenging because interaction between two or more organisms is complex, bidirectional and often influenced by multiplicative environmental conditions. Studies dealing with plant-environment interactions are usually cumulative and do not identify specific molecular and physiological markers involved in the adaptation process under complex multiple stresses. The primary goal of the topic is to facilitate the identification of target gene(s) involved in plant growth and development that are responsible for simultaneous exposure to multiple stressors. Secondly, the inclusion of new approaches in the topic will be useful to distinguish the nature and straight of interdependence between different stress combinations. The final output of topic could be useful to breeders in creating genotypes with higher production under various environmental stimuli.
Submissions that cover beneficial interactions (biostimulators, microsymbiotic interactions, heterospecific facilitation, mutualism, etc.) as well as studies dealing with plant response to adverse interactions (biotic and abiotic environmental stress, plant-plant competition, and allelopathy) are welcome in this issue. The issue seeks results that reveal physiological adaptive strategies in positive and negative environmental interactions, including photosynthetic performance, plant water relations, canopy analysis, phenotyping, stomatal control, chlorophyll fluorescence, etc. In addition, this issue gives a special emphasis on advanced biological techniques for monitoring plant status. These include environmental regulation and gene expression, transcriptome, proteome and metabolome profiling and their integration in the understanding positive or negative plant interactions. Studies supporting the implementation of innovative eco-friendly methods (e.g. plasma technologies) in environmental studies along with advantages and limitations of this technology in this area are highly appreciated.
Keywords:
abiotic and biotic stress, environmental interactions, microsymbiotic interactions, photosynthetic performance
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.