Plant Stress Responses in Photosynthesis
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 5439
Special Issue Editors
Interests: reactive oxygen species; oxidative stress; abiotic stress response; redox regulation; germination; seed storage proteins; rice
Interests: oxygen; O2; reactive oxygen species (ROS); the water–water cycle; photosystem I; P700; P700 oxidation; Mehler reaction; superoxide; hydrogen peroxide; singlet oxygen; reduction-induced suppression of electron flow (RISE)
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Dear Colleagues,
Photosynthesis sustains most of the lives on Earth, including plants and animals. Global climate change brings about previously unexperienced extreme temperatures and enhances desertification in arid areas, which affect plant photosynthesis and threaten plant survival and crop production. In order to deal with this issue, it is critical to understand the response of photosynthesis to abiotic stresses such as high light, heat, cold, and drought. Under stressed and even non-stressed conditions, plants modulate the absorption, utilization, and dissipation of light energy in response to ever-changing environmental conditions in order to perform efficient carbon fixation and prevent photooxidative damages caused by excess excitation energy. Molecular genetics studies in model plants have elucidated the various regulatory mechanisms of electron transport systems for adjusting the balance of the two photosystems and dissipating the excess energy. The regulation of carbon fixation and related primary metabolism, which utilize the reducing power produced by the electron transport chain, are also important topics. In addition, the physiological responses of photosynthetic machinery and related metabolisms to field environmental conditions have been revealed in various species, including non-model and crop plants. In this Special Issue, original research papers and reviews are welcome that describe recent advances in stress response in photosynthesis in algae and higher plants with biochemical, molecular genetics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and physiological approaches.
Dr. Shigeto Morita
Prof. Dr. Chikahiro Miyake
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carbon fixation
- electron transport
- photoinhibition
- reactive oxygen species
- redox regulation
- abiotic stress
- acclimation
- antioxidant defense
- cold
- drought
- high light
- heat
- salinity
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