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Plant Abiotic Stress

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Plant Abiotic Stress publishes research on the interactions of plants and environmental factors that can cause negative effects on plant growth and survival — including extremes in temperature, water, nutrients, gasses, wind, radiation, and other environmental conditions.

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Plant Abiotic Stress publishes research on the interactions of plants and environmental factors that can cause negative effects on plant growth and survival. These interactions can be analyzed and described at the cellular, biochemical, physiological, tissue, organ, whole-plant, or population level. Abiotic stress comprises all non-living factors that affect plants beyond the normal range of a specific plant’s natural, compatible/adapted environment, including extremes in temperature, water, nutrients, gasses, wind, radiation, and other environmental conditions. Welcomed studies focus on environmental stress perception, signaling, and mechanistic response at all levels. Topics covered by this section include, but are not limited to:

· Identification of genes involved in differential stress responses

· Elucidation of stress response and protection pathways

· Engineering of stress response and protection pathways

· Studies focused on stress adapted plants

· Analysis of abiotic stress responses in context of climate change, crop stability, and resilience

Studies that report responses to abiotic stress treatments without contributing to the mechanistic, or genetic, understanding of the responses observed will not be considered.

Please consider the requirements for experimental studies as listed below

Phenotyping and gene function experiments

· All quantitative analyzes need to be performed on a minimum number of 3 biological replicates in order to enable an assessment of significance. This includes quantitative omics studies (transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics) as well as phenotypic measurements, quantitative assays, and qPCR expression analysis.

· Studies using transgenic or mutant lines (plants and algae) should be based on data from multiple independent alleles (at least 2) displaying a common and stable phenotype. Examples include, T-DNA, transposon, RNAi, CRISPR/Cas9, chemically induced, overexpressors, reporter fusions (GUS, FPs, LUC). etc. Qualitative data can be presented from a single allele but should be indicative of observations from multiple alleles which should be explicitly stated in the text. Quantitative data should be derived from multiple alleles (at least 2) and should be displayed separately for each allele (with at least 3 independent replications for each allele). Studies reporting single alleles may be considered acceptable when:

i) Complementation via transformation is used for confirmation;
ii) The allele has been previously characterized and published and is representative of multiple independent lines;
iii) Systems where genetic transformation is difficult or not yet possible, alternative evidence should be presented supporting the reported allele.

· Overexpression/loss-of-function studies to characterize a particular gene must be conducted in the plant species of origin of the gene. If the studied species is particularly difficult to transform, experimental evidence must be provided in addition to overexpression experiments in a model plant system (Arabidopsis, Nicotiana, rice).

· Reports of novel tolerance genes or alleles must be accompanied by allelism tests in the appropriate segregating progenies. The novel resistance source should preferably be deposited to one or more internationally accessible germplasm repositories without usage restrictions.

Additional Requirements

Studies falling into the categories below will not be considered for review, unless they are expanded and provide insight into the biological system or process being studied:

i) Descriptive collection of transcripts, proteins or metabolites, including comparative sets as a result of different conditions or treatments;
ii) Descriptive studies that define gene families using basic phylogenetics and the assignment of cursory functional attributions (e.g. expression profiles, hormone or metabolites levels, promoter analysis, informatic parameters).

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