Environmental stresses, especially drought, temperature (heat and cold), heavy metals, and salinity, are among the major causes affecting plant survival and productivity, thus threatening global food and economic security. The severity of the extreme environmental events due to climate change is projected to be more frequent. These adverse environmental events will affect plant growth, other physiological processes, and productivity and will create an ecological imbalance and loss to the global economy. Under current conditions, there is a critical need to understand the impact of environmental stress and develop climate-resilient crops that can grow better under these conditions. Further, understanding the physiological, molecular, and genetic mechanisms is crucial for improving plant tolerance to these stresses. In recent years, advancements in phenotyping, genomics, genetic engineering, genome editing, and breeding technologies have been made significant progress in this direction, but the knowledge gaps still exist. The papers published in this Research Topic will emphasize drought, heat, and cold temperatures, heavy metal toxicity, and salinity tolerance in plants, and underlying physiological and molecular mechanisms to cope with environmental stress.
The manuscripts submitted in this Research Topic must report rationale, novelty, and hypothesis-driven results using appropriate methodologies. The research papers published in the proposed Research Topic will focus on precision phenotyping, the physiological, biochemical, genetic, and molecular basis of environmental stress tolerance in plants. Papers dealing with advanced genomics, genome editing, and breeding tools used for understanding and improving the drought, heat, and cold temperatures, heavy metals, and salinity tolerance will be considered.
This research topic aims to identify novel research findings on environmental stress tolerance in plant species, including crop, model plants, and tree species. The scope of this topic includes:
· Phenotyping of the plants (model and crop plants) in response to environmental stresses such as drought, temperature, salt, and heavy metals.
· Invitro and in vivo phenotyping
· Understanding the physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms in response to environmental stresses
· Combination of environmental stresses and their impact on plants
· Multiple stress tolerance in plants
· Integrated approaches for improving environmental stress tolerance in plants
· Stress signaling, gene networking, and transcription factors
· Functional validation of candidate genes for improving stress tolerance
· Genomics and transcriptomics of plants in response to stress
· Molecular breeding for improving the stress tolerance in plants
· Genetic engineering and genome editing approaches for improving stress tolerance
· Recent advancements and current challenges in environmental stress
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.
Environmental stresses, especially drought, temperature (heat and cold), heavy metals, and salinity, are among the major causes affecting plant survival and productivity, thus threatening global food and economic security. The severity of the extreme environmental events due to climate change is projected to be more frequent. These adverse environmental events will affect plant growth, other physiological processes, and productivity and will create an ecological imbalance and loss to the global economy. Under current conditions, there is a critical need to understand the impact of environmental stress and develop climate-resilient crops that can grow better under these conditions. Further, understanding the physiological, molecular, and genetic mechanisms is crucial for improving plant tolerance to these stresses. In recent years, advancements in phenotyping, genomics, genetic engineering, genome editing, and breeding technologies have been made significant progress in this direction, but the knowledge gaps still exist. The papers published in this Research Topic will emphasize drought, heat, and cold temperatures, heavy metal toxicity, and salinity tolerance in plants, and underlying physiological and molecular mechanisms to cope with environmental stress.
The manuscripts submitted in this Research Topic must report rationale, novelty, and hypothesis-driven results using appropriate methodologies. The research papers published in the proposed Research Topic will focus on precision phenotyping, the physiological, biochemical, genetic, and molecular basis of environmental stress tolerance in plants. Papers dealing with advanced genomics, genome editing, and breeding tools used for understanding and improving the drought, heat, and cold temperatures, heavy metals, and salinity tolerance will be considered.
This research topic aims to identify novel research findings on environmental stress tolerance in plant species, including crop, model plants, and tree species. The scope of this topic includes:
· Phenotyping of the plants (model and crop plants) in response to environmental stresses such as drought, temperature, salt, and heavy metals.
· Invitro and in vivo phenotyping
· Understanding the physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms in response to environmental stresses
· Combination of environmental stresses and their impact on plants
· Multiple stress tolerance in plants
· Integrated approaches for improving environmental stress tolerance in plants
· Stress signaling, gene networking, and transcription factors
· Functional validation of candidate genes for improving stress tolerance
· Genomics and transcriptomics of plants in response to stress
· Molecular breeding for improving the stress tolerance in plants
· Genetic engineering and genome editing approaches for improving stress tolerance
· Recent advancements and current challenges in environmental stress
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.
