Peptides in Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Physiology and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2023) | Viewed by 7838
Special Issue Editors
Interests: peptide; plant development; root development; peptide-DNA (RNA) interaction; regulation of gene expression
Interests: biochemistry; DNA methylation; epigenetic mechanisms; plant adaptation; epigenetic regulation
2. Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya Street, 4, 127276 Moscow, Russia
Interests: cell biophysics; ontogenesis; symmetry and asymmetry of biological objects and systems; environmental stress; plant development biology; cell biology; genetic engineering; electron microscopy; cell ultrastructure; mathematical models of genome phenotypic manifestations
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Dear Colleagues,
For many years, peptides in plants were considered only as antimicrobial components of plant defense mechanisms. Antimicrobial peptides kill pathogens by interacting with phospholipids and permeabilizing membranes. Another group of antimicrobial peptides is able to penetrate through membranes into cells and deliver various molecules. This ability of this class of peptides has recently received much attention from researchers. Such antimicrobial peptides are actively used not only in the fight against pathogenic microorganisms, but also in the treatment of genetic diseases.
The discovery that many different (secreted) peptides are involved in signaling has stimulated intense research. Peptide hormones play a key role in many physiological processes, coordinating developmental and environmental signals between different cells. Hormonal peptides play a critical role in plant growth and development, including defense mechanisms in response to pest damage, the control of cell division and expansion, as well as pollen incompatibility. They can trigger or inhibit a variety of genetic processes and biochemical reactions in the cell.
Peptide–receptor complexes activate various regulatory networks to mediate plant adaptation to environmental abiotic stress. Small peptides, interacting with the appropriate receptors, act as local or mobile signaling molecules over long distances to create regulatory networks between cells, which leads to optimal cellular and physiological processes in response to various abiotic stresses.
It is also impossible to ignore another aspect of the study of plant peptides, which is that plant peptides have biological activity in plant foods, and have a beneficial effect on human health.
Dr. Larisa I. Fedoreyeva
Prof. Dr. Boris F Vanyushin
Dr. Ekaterina Baranova
Dr. Neonila V. Kononenko
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant peptides
- antimicrobial plant peptides
- phytohormonal peptides
- peptide-receptor complexes
- abiotic stress
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