Salt stress is a major constraint to global food security and will become more prevalent in the coming decades due to climate change. Exposure to salt stress triggers altered molecular and functional responses resulting in adverse effects on growth, development, and productivity in plants. Plants perceive the stimuli from the surrounding environment and modulate defense pathways through various regulatory networks to help overcome abiotic stress. Salt tolerance is genetically complex and can be dissected into the contributing factors and mechanisms. Salinity over concentration and time leads to shifts in primary and secondary impairments and associated conditions. Osmotic stress occurs at the first phase followed by ion toxicity, which are the primary disturbances to cellular processes. These, in turn, result in secondary stresses such as oxidative stress and nutritional disorders.
This research topic aims to develop better knowledge of the molecular and functional mechanisms of salt tolerance to develop more effective strategies for improving crop productivity and quality under saline conditions. We will explore the biochemical/physiological/genetic/epigenetic strategies adopted by plants that assist them in salt stress tolerance/adaptation using a variety of molecular and functional approaches including genomic/epigenomic architecture.
Therefore, we welcome submissions including, but not limited to, the following:
- Plant molecular and functional responses to salt stress
- Salt stress tolerance mechanisms
- Transcriptome and epigenome (DNA methylation, histone modification, non-coding
RNAs) analyses for salt tolerance in plants
- Engineering salt tolerance via genome/epigenome editing
- Improving salt tolerance by transformation/mutagenesis.
Salt stress is a major constraint to global food security and will become more prevalent in the coming decades due to climate change. Exposure to salt stress triggers altered molecular and functional responses resulting in adverse effects on growth, development, and productivity in plants. Plants perceive the stimuli from the surrounding environment and modulate defense pathways through various regulatory networks to help overcome abiotic stress. Salt tolerance is genetically complex and can be dissected into the contributing factors and mechanisms. Salinity over concentration and time leads to shifts in primary and secondary impairments and associated conditions. Osmotic stress occurs at the first phase followed by ion toxicity, which are the primary disturbances to cellular processes. These, in turn, result in secondary stresses such as oxidative stress and nutritional disorders.
This research topic aims to develop better knowledge of the molecular and functional mechanisms of salt tolerance to develop more effective strategies for improving crop productivity and quality under saline conditions. We will explore the biochemical/physiological/genetic/epigenetic strategies adopted by plants that assist them in salt stress tolerance/adaptation using a variety of molecular and functional approaches including genomic/epigenomic architecture.
Therefore, we welcome submissions including, but not limited to, the following:
- Plant molecular and functional responses to salt stress
- Salt stress tolerance mechanisms
- Transcriptome and epigenome (DNA methylation, histone modification, non-coding
RNAs) analyses for salt tolerance in plants
- Engineering salt tolerance via genome/epigenome editing
- Improving salt tolerance by transformation/mutagenesis.
