Key Molecules Regulating Plant Response to Abiotic Stress: Transcription Factors and Stress-Induced Proteins
A special issue of Biomolecules (ISSN 2218-273X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 32
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Interests: resource plant molecular biology; plant stress tolerance mechanisms; functional research on plant non-coding RNAs
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Dear Colleagues,
Understanding the molecular mechanisms of abiotic stress response in plants is beneficial for applying genetic engineering techniques to design novel crops with high environmental stress adaptability. Multiple kinds of protein molecules play crucial roles in the response and adaptation of plants to abiotic stress. These molecules include transcription factors that regulate plant environmental stress responses, such as AP2/ERF, MYB, and NAC family proteins, by regulating many downstream functional genes. Some enzyme molecules, including various antioxidant enzymes and osmolyte synthase, participate in plant abiotic stress responses by modulating ROS and osmotic balance through enzymatic reactions. Late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins and certain pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins, such as thaumatin-like proteins (TLPs), protect cell structure under stress conditions. Understanding the specific biological functions of these molecules in different plants and under different stress conditions will advance our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying plant abiotic stress tolerance.
This Special Issue, titled "Key Molecules Regulating Plant Response to Abiotic Stress: Transcription Factors and Stress-Induced Proteins" invites authors to submit innovative reviews or original research articles that conduct the identification of key molecules regulating plant response to abiotic stress using transcriptomics and other omics methods, as well as bioinformatics tools such as gene duplication and phylogenetic analysis, and the functional characterization of these protein molecules in plant response to various environmental stresses using genetic approaches.
Prof. Dr. Fei Gao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- abiotic stress response
- transcription factors
- stress-induced proteins
- molecular mechanisms
- transcriptomics
- omics
- bioinformatics
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