Plants are constantly under environmental pressure of both abiotic and biotic in nature, which affects their growth, reproduction, yield, and survival. Some of these biotic stresses are induced by viruses, bacteria, fungi, insects, weeds, nematodes, insects, etc. and abiotic stresses such as extreme temperatures, salinity, drought, floods, and heavy metals. Plants need to respond to combinations of various biotic and abiotic stresses simultaneously in nature. Global warming and climate change have aggravated the background stress levels making it the most pressing need of the hour to understand the plant response to stress combinations more than ever. Plants need to sense, sort, and communicate multiple stress signals then activate downstream responses while allocating resources simultaneously. On top of this plant developmental stage and the timing and order of each stress can also lead to different responses. Thus, the multiple stress exposure-response is different than individual stress exposure and needs to be studied to tackle the extreme challenges in front of a world expected to feed 10 billion people by 2050.
In this Research Topic, we aim to incorporate the contribution of leading plant biologists to address the important questions related to the combination of various kinds of stresses, abiotic stress, and plant immunity crosstalk including components of plasma membrane the prime site of perception of all these stresses.
We wish to elucidate several aspects of stress signaling to understand the tradeoff, adaptation, overlap, and uniqueness during co-occurrence of an abiotic stress with a biotic stress in plants.
We encourage submission of the following article types: Original Research, Opinions, Perspectives, Mini Reviews or Reviews, and Methods covering the following topics:
• Shared, distinct components of Abiotic stress and plant immunity signaling including receptors, membrane proteins, and channels
• Abiotic stress response and plant immunity vesicle trafficking
• New technologies to measure and distinguish levels of abiotic stress and biotic stress at cell surface
• Mathematical modeling of the crosstalk/ tradeoff between multiple stress responses
• Plant species showing unique responses to individual stresses and combinations of abiotic and biotic stresses due to difference in their ion homeostasis
• Adaptation to multiple stresses through stomata
• Adaptation of the plant pathogens and herbivores to abiotic stress during their attack
• Priming of plant immunity with abiotic stress
Plants are constantly under environmental pressure of both abiotic and biotic in nature, which affects their growth, reproduction, yield, and survival. Some of these biotic stresses are induced by viruses, bacteria, fungi, insects, weeds, nematodes, insects, etc. and abiotic stresses such as extreme temperatures, salinity, drought, floods, and heavy metals. Plants need to respond to combinations of various biotic and abiotic stresses simultaneously in nature. Global warming and climate change have aggravated the background stress levels making it the most pressing need of the hour to understand the plant response to stress combinations more than ever. Plants need to sense, sort, and communicate multiple stress signals then activate downstream responses while allocating resources simultaneously. On top of this plant developmental stage and the timing and order of each stress can also lead to different responses. Thus, the multiple stress exposure-response is different than individual stress exposure and needs to be studied to tackle the extreme challenges in front of a world expected to feed 10 billion people by 2050.
In this Research Topic, we aim to incorporate the contribution of leading plant biologists to address the important questions related to the combination of various kinds of stresses, abiotic stress, and plant immunity crosstalk including components of plasma membrane the prime site of perception of all these stresses.
We wish to elucidate several aspects of stress signaling to understand the tradeoff, adaptation, overlap, and uniqueness during co-occurrence of an abiotic stress with a biotic stress in plants.
We encourage submission of the following article types: Original Research, Opinions, Perspectives, Mini Reviews or Reviews, and Methods covering the following topics:
• Shared, distinct components of Abiotic stress and plant immunity signaling including receptors, membrane proteins, and channels
• Abiotic stress response and plant immunity vesicle trafficking
• New technologies to measure and distinguish levels of abiotic stress and biotic stress at cell surface
• Mathematical modeling of the crosstalk/ tradeoff between multiple stress responses
• Plant species showing unique responses to individual stresses and combinations of abiotic and biotic stresses due to difference in their ion homeostasis
• Adaptation to multiple stresses through stomata
• Adaptation of the plant pathogens and herbivores to abiotic stress during their attack
• Priming of plant immunity with abiotic stress
