New Horizons in Plant Cell Signaling 2.0
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: closed (30 July 2023) | Viewed by 2033
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant biology; stress responses; plant biochemistry; plant cell signaling; signalling molecules; molecular mechanisms; “omics” technologies; systems biology; evolution
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Interests: plant biology; cell signaling; cyclic nucleotides; nucleotide cyclases; moonlighting proteins; plant sexual reproduction; fertilization; nitric oxide; pollen tube; bioinformatics; computational biology; systems biology; indoor horticulture; antibiotic resistance; probiotics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Reacting to environmental stimuli with the appropriate molecular and genetic responses is essential to all life forms and even more so in sessile and immobile organisms like plants. Higher eukaryotes, including plants, use both rapid early mechanisms such as the activation of channels and kinases, directly or indirectly through protein sensors, as well as the slower systemic adaptive responses that include changes in their transcriptomes and proteomes. To enable these processes and concomitantly tune their responses to the environment, complex cellular signaling mechanisms have evolved, many of which are somewhat different from their animal counterparts. Recent decades have seen a rapid expansion of our understanding of these processes, mainly thanks to the availability of many complete genomes and the subsequent development of “omics” technologies as well as steadily improving imaging technologies.
With this Special Issue entitled “New Horizons in Plant Signaling”, we aim to broaden our understanding of novel signaling molecules and signaling mechanisms. In addition, we also invite reports on novel technologies, including computational methods to study cellular signaling in planta. The molecules under consideration include but are not limited to peptidic hormones, steroids, nucleotides, Ca2+, nitric oxide (NO), and lipids.
We will consider different formats, including short reviews, opinion articles, hypotheses and reports of novel exciting findings—even if only preliminary evidence is presented. The submissions will typically entail findings from model organisms but will not be restricted to them.
Dr. Christoph Gehring
Dr. Aloysius Wong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant responses
- plant development
- plant signal transduction
- molecular signals
- signaling molecules
- plant hormones
- plant molecular biology
- cell biology
- plant biochemistry
- systems biology
- computational biology
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