The worrying effects of global climate change pose major challenges for the future. The global warming (which leads to an increase in atmospheric temperature), the evolution of pathogenic threats and extreme weather conditions have a great impact on the plant-ecosystem, especially in terms of ensuring global food security. Signaling substances, called plant hormones or phytohormones, are chemical messengers that regulate the plant’s ability to react to environmental changes. Thus, plants produce a wide variety of hormones, including auxins, cytokinins (CKs), gibberellins (GAs), abscisic acid (ABA), salicylic acid (SA), ethylene (ET), jasmonates (JAs), brassinosteroids (BRs), strigolactones (SLs) and peptides. Moreover, plant hormones do not act alone. Their signaling pathways are linked by a complex network of interactions and feedback loops and thus determine the final outcome of the individual hormone action.
Knowledge about the regulation of plant hormones with regard to the robustness and adaptation of plants to changing environmental conditions is of particular importance for the future. Therefore, recent research focuses on answering open questions related to the role of plant hormones in climate change, including:
i) how plant hormones regulate cell-cell communication both locally and systemically,
ii) genomic, metabolic, and developmental plasticity or
iii) how hormonal networks are established, maintained and modulated.
This Research Topic welcomes manuscripts addressing the fundamental science of - and future perspectives on - plant hormones research. We particularly welcome studies focused on:
• Plant hormone regulation under abiotic and/or biotic stress conditions
• Plant hormone-mediated regulation of stress tolerance
• Locally and /or systematically plant hormone communication under stress
• Hormonal stress signaling and stress responses
• Hormonal interaction and signaling networks
• Large-scale genomic and transcriptomic analyses related to stress adaptation processes
• Novel genes or gene networks controlling hormonal interaction signal transduction pathways
Please note: Frontiers in Plant Science does not accept solely descriptive studies - studies which report responses to treatments and descriptive reports of ‘Omics studies will not be considered if they do not progress biological understanding of these responses.
The worrying effects of global climate change pose major challenges for the future. The global warming (which leads to an increase in atmospheric temperature), the evolution of pathogenic threats and extreme weather conditions have a great impact on the plant-ecosystem, especially in terms of ensuring global food security. Signaling substances, called plant hormones or phytohormones, are chemical messengers that regulate the plant’s ability to react to environmental changes. Thus, plants produce a wide variety of hormones, including auxins, cytokinins (CKs), gibberellins (GAs), abscisic acid (ABA), salicylic acid (SA), ethylene (ET), jasmonates (JAs), brassinosteroids (BRs), strigolactones (SLs) and peptides. Moreover, plant hormones do not act alone. Their signaling pathways are linked by a complex network of interactions and feedback loops and thus determine the final outcome of the individual hormone action.
Knowledge about the regulation of plant hormones with regard to the robustness and adaptation of plants to changing environmental conditions is of particular importance for the future. Therefore, recent research focuses on answering open questions related to the role of plant hormones in climate change, including:
i) how plant hormones regulate cell-cell communication both locally and systemically,
ii) genomic, metabolic, and developmental plasticity or
iii) how hormonal networks are established, maintained and modulated.
This Research Topic welcomes manuscripts addressing the fundamental science of - and future perspectives on - plant hormones research. We particularly welcome studies focused on:
• Plant hormone regulation under abiotic and/or biotic stress conditions
• Plant hormone-mediated regulation of stress tolerance
• Locally and /or systematically plant hormone communication under stress
• Hormonal stress signaling and stress responses
• Hormonal interaction and signaling networks
• Large-scale genomic and transcriptomic analyses related to stress adaptation processes
• Novel genes or gene networks controlling hormonal interaction signal transduction pathways
Please note: Frontiers in Plant Science does not accept solely descriptive studies - studies which report responses to treatments and descriptive reports of ‘Omics studies will not be considered if they do not progress biological understanding of these responses.
