Recent Advances in Molecular Breeding for Drought and Salt Stress Tolerance in Crops: 2nd Edition
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 247
Special Issue Editor
Interests: drought; salt; heat; fusarium crown rot (FCR); regulation network; wheat; soybean
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Dear Colleagues,
Abiotic stresses, especially drought and salt, seriously affect plant growth and crop quality and yield. Plants have evolved defense systems and sophisticated mechanisms that help them adapt to changing environments. These systems include plant hormones and related signaling compounds, which play important roles in the regulation of plant responses to various environmental stresses. Elucidating the molecular mechanisms involved in plant stress tolerance is critical for relieving the effects of environmental stresses on plant growth.
With the advance in high-throughput sequencing technologies, the isolation of multiple genes and analyses of the gene regulation network have ballooned in recent years. The scope of this Special Issue is to summarize and enhance knowledge about abiotic stress recognition, transduction, and regulation networks in plants.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Abiotic stresses, including drought, salt, heat, cold, dry–hot wind, and hormones.
- Gene isolation, functional identification, and tolerant mechanisms.
- Stress signal transduction pathway, including receptor signal recognition, transduction, and regulation networks.
- Abiotic stress responses, gene–abiotic stress interactions, and diverse signaling molecules.
- Multiomics analysis.
Prof. Dr. Zhaoshi Xu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- drought
- salt
- heat
- cold
- gene regulation
- genomic research
- multiomics
- epigenetics
- stress signal transduction
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