EDITORIAL article

Front. Plant Sci.

Sec. Plant Abiotic Stress

Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1627814

This article is part of the Research TopicFlourishing in Arid Realms: Exploring the Adaptation of Plant Functional Traits to Drought EnvironmentsView all 19 articles

Flourishing in Arid Realms: Exploring the Adaptation of Plant Functional Traits to Drought Environments

Provisionally accepted
  • 1Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi, China
  • 2Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Algeria
  • 3University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 4Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China

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Keywords: Plant functional traits, global climate change, drought resistance, Molecular mechanisms, plant-soil microbial interactions

Received: 13 May 2025; Accepted: 20 May 2025.

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* Correspondence: Jie Gao, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi, China

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