Redox Biology in Plant Growth, Defence and Metabolism
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921). This special issue belongs to the section "ROS, RNS and RSS".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2022) | Viewed by 33141
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant stress response; redox signalling; ascorbate; glutathione; bioactive compounds; plant metabolism
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and antioxidant systems play a crucial role in signalling pathways, working towards plant development, environmental interactions, stress response and metabolic adjustments. This likely mainly depends on the evolutionary pressure that turns harmful compounds into useful signals in aerobic organisms and increases plant ability to produce antioxidative compounds. Thus, redox regulation permeates plant processes ranging from primary physiological ones to specific responses activated in complex environmental scenarios.
Redox dynamics include different molecular mechanisms, such as ROS production and scavenging, cell redox balance shifts, organelle trafficking of redox signals, gene expression regulation, and redox modifications controlling proteins’ activity. Indeed, redox switches are reported to control plant cell fate and, consequently, plant final “shape” by regulating cell-cycle progression and programmed cell death occurrence. Consistently, redox signalling is at the crossroad of a number of interconnected molecular pathways influencing plant fitness and metabolism, with possible implications for crop yield and nutritional value.
Given the importance of unravelling the complex network of molecular events involving redox actors, possibly affecting plant health and productivity, original works and reviews dealing with all the above-described aspects of plant redox biology are welcome in this Special Issue.
Dr. Vittoria Locato
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Redox signalling
- Plant development
- Plant defence response
- Environmental interactions
- Bioactive molecules
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