Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plants: Functional Genomic Intervention

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20 May 2016

Editorial: Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plants: Functional Genomic Intervention

Girdhar K. Pandey

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Amita Pandey

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Manoj Prasad

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Maik Böhmer

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GIRDHAR KUMAR PANDEY

University of Delhi

Manoj Prasad

National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR)

AMITA PANDEY

Amity University

Maik Böhmer

Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt

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Abiotic stresses such as high temperature, low-temperature, drought and salinity limit crop productivity worldwide. Understanding plant responses to these stresses is essential for rational engineering of crop plants. In Arabidopsis, the signal transduction pathways for abiotic stresses, light, several phytohormones and pathogenesis have been elucidated. A significant portion of plant genomes (most studies are Arabidopsis and rice genome) encodes for proteins involves in signaling such as receptor, sensors, kinases, phosphatases, transcription factors and transporters/channels. Despite decades of physiological and molecular effort, knowledge pertaining to how plants sense and transduce low and high temperature, low-water availability (drought), water-submergence and salinity signals is still a major question before plant biologist. One major constraint hampering our understanding of these signal transduction processes in plants has been the lack or slow pace of application of molecular genomic and genetics knowledge in the form of gene function.

In the post-genomic era, one of the major challenges is investigation and understanding of multiple genes and gene families regulating a particular physiological and developmental aspect of plant life cycle. One of the important physiological processes is regulation of stress response, which leads to adaptation or adjustment in response to adverse stimuli. With the holistic understanding of the signaling pathways involving not only one gene family but multiple genes or gene families, plant biologist can lay a foundation for designing and generating future crops, which can withstand the higher degree of environmental stresses (especially abiotic stresses, which are the major cause of crop loss throughout the world) without losing crop yield and productivity.
Therefore, in this Research Topic, we intend to incorporate the contribution from leading plant biologists to elucidate the several aspects of stress signaling by functional genomic approaches.

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GIRDHAR KUMAR PANDEY

University of Delhi

Manoj Prasad

National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR)

AMITA PANDEY

Amity University

Maik Böhmer

Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt

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