Metabolic engineering plays a crucial role in enhancing plant growth and yield improvement. This involves exploring innovative strategies to improve plant performance by playing environmental factors. Plant metabolic engineering, specifically, focuses on modifying plant metabolic pathways to enhance growth and productivity. Researchers investigate how to overcome challenges such as nutrient deficiencies, stress conditions, and varying environmental factors. One key area of focus is engineering plant metabolic networks to optimize nutrient uptake and assimilation, improve stress tolerance, and enhance overall growth efficiency. Environmental modulation is also integrated to create plants that are more resilient and productive under diverse and challenging conditions. This involves manipulating gene expression, enzyme activity, and metabolite profiles to align with specific environmental cues, thus tailoring plant responses to maximize yield and sustainability.
This Research Topic incorporates a range of approaches, including genetic modifications, synthetic biology, advanced computational modeling, and systems biology. By understanding how environmental variables interact with engineered metabolic pathways, the studies contribute to the development of crops that can thrive in suboptimal conditions, ultimately supporting global food security and sustainable agriculture. This topic is particularly relevant in addressing the pressing need to adapt agricultural practices to a changing climate and limited resources. It offers potential solutions to enhance crop performance through scientific and technological advancements in metabolic engineering.
Researchers can contribute a manuscript to the collection with the following welcomed themes:
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Metabolic Engineering
• Metabolic Pathways
• Genetic and Regulatory Processes
• Secondary Metabolites
• Abiotic and Biotic Stress
• Plant-Microbe Interactions
• Bioinformatics
• Microbial Diversity
• Biocatalysis
• Plant Growth Enhancement
• Stress Tolerance
• Crop Yield Improvement
• Synthetic Biology
• Environmental Modulation
• Nutrient Uptake
• Resilient Crops
• Omics
• Climate Adaptation
• Genetic Modification
• Metabolic Pathways
• Industrial Biotechnology
• Environmental Sustainability
Keywords:
Plant Growth, Metabolic Engineering, Environmental Modulation, Sustainable Agriculture
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.
Metabolic engineering plays a crucial role in enhancing plant growth and yield improvement. This involves exploring innovative strategies to improve plant performance by playing environmental factors. Plant metabolic engineering, specifically, focuses on modifying plant metabolic pathways to enhance growth and productivity. Researchers investigate how to overcome challenges such as nutrient deficiencies, stress conditions, and varying environmental factors. One key area of focus is engineering plant metabolic networks to optimize nutrient uptake and assimilation, improve stress tolerance, and enhance overall growth efficiency. Environmental modulation is also integrated to create plants that are more resilient and productive under diverse and challenging conditions. This involves manipulating gene expression, enzyme activity, and metabolite profiles to align with specific environmental cues, thus tailoring plant responses to maximize yield and sustainability.
This Research Topic incorporates a range of approaches, including genetic modifications, synthetic biology, advanced computational modeling, and systems biology. By understanding how environmental variables interact with engineered metabolic pathways, the studies contribute to the development of crops that can thrive in suboptimal conditions, ultimately supporting global food security and sustainable agriculture. This topic is particularly relevant in addressing the pressing need to adapt agricultural practices to a changing climate and limited resources. It offers potential solutions to enhance crop performance through scientific and technological advancements in metabolic engineering.
Researchers can contribute a manuscript to the collection with the following welcomed themes:
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Metabolic Engineering
• Metabolic Pathways
• Genetic and Regulatory Processes
• Secondary Metabolites
• Abiotic and Biotic Stress
• Plant-Microbe Interactions
• Bioinformatics
• Microbial Diversity
• Biocatalysis
• Plant Growth Enhancement
• Stress Tolerance
• Crop Yield Improvement
• Synthetic Biology
• Environmental Modulation
• Nutrient Uptake
• Resilient Crops
• Omics
• Climate Adaptation
• Genetic Modification
• Metabolic Pathways
• Industrial Biotechnology
• Environmental Sustainability
Keywords:
Plant Growth, Metabolic Engineering, Environmental Modulation, Sustainable Agriculture
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.