Currently, the adverse effects of environmental stresses are exacerbated by climate change. Amongst these, abiotic stresses such as drought, salt, heat, and the cold are major environmental factors that directly affect crop productivity in agriculture and threaten global food security. Additionally, plant growth and development are both affected by external cues and intrinsic growth regulators. Indeed, increasing evidence shows that plants are exposed to specific responses by changes in gene expression, metabolism, and physiology in response to different environmental stress conditions. It enables plant cells to be capable of sensing various environmental signals. This is an essential signaling cascade that incorporates a wide range of exogenous as well as endogenous stimuli and is multistep.
Environmental cues target the perception of sensors, thereby not only orchestrating intrinsic developmental programs but also conveying environmental inputs. All growth processes are under the pivotal influence of signaling transduction pathways in coordination with various metabolic processes. Thus, an issue arising about how plants sense stress signals and adapt to environmental change are fundamental biological questions.
The interaction between plant and environment stress through signal transduction is multistep and complex. Thus, the identification of stress sensors and key regulators of signal transduction remains important for abiotic stress studies in plants. Studies on challenging cells in stress sensing and response and the dispersed stress-sensing model are exponentially increasing. But, the mechanisms by which specific signals are recognized by a commonly-occurring pathway are not yet clearly understood.
Therefore, we attempt to find and understand the model signaling pathway in plants and the underlying molecular mechanisms that integrate multiple inputs; including hormonal, signals transduction, and environmental signaling into a common pathway.
Multidisciplinary approaches applied across the whole spectrum of plant science are particularly encouraged, including techniques from molecular and cell biology, genome editing, functional genomics, modeling, and system-based approaches.
This Research Topic aims to summarize current knowledge of the cross-regulatory pathway interactions that orchestrate plant growth and development as being linked to environmental fluctuation. The submission of this special issue is connected to fundamental and applied aspects in plant physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, and related interdisciplinary fields.
The scope of this research topic consists of five sections, including plant signaling, environment stress, hormone signaling, ROS signaling, and redox signaling. The research considered for peer review must address mechanisms and processes from molecular to physiological responses, and can include:
• Plant signaling: Intra/inter-cellular signaling, long-distance signaling, physiology, development, eco-Devo – phenotypic plasticity, transport
• Environment stress: environment stress, plant-abiotic stress interaction, plant-biotic stress interaction
• Hormone signaling: hormone-stress signaling, hormone-plant development, hormone crosstalk
• ROS signaling: oxidative stress, ROS signal, ROS-antioxidant
• Redox signaling: Redox-stress tolerance, Redox-ROS interaction
Currently, the adverse effects of environmental stresses are exacerbated by climate change. Amongst these, abiotic stresses such as drought, salt, heat, and the cold are major environmental factors that directly affect crop productivity in agriculture and threaten global food security. Additionally, plant growth and development are both affected by external cues and intrinsic growth regulators. Indeed, increasing evidence shows that plants are exposed to specific responses by changes in gene expression, metabolism, and physiology in response to different environmental stress conditions. It enables plant cells to be capable of sensing various environmental signals. This is an essential signaling cascade that incorporates a wide range of exogenous as well as endogenous stimuli and is multistep.
Environmental cues target the perception of sensors, thereby not only orchestrating intrinsic developmental programs but also conveying environmental inputs. All growth processes are under the pivotal influence of signaling transduction pathways in coordination with various metabolic processes. Thus, an issue arising about how plants sense stress signals and adapt to environmental change are fundamental biological questions.
The interaction between plant and environment stress through signal transduction is multistep and complex. Thus, the identification of stress sensors and key regulators of signal transduction remains important for abiotic stress studies in plants. Studies on challenging cells in stress sensing and response and the dispersed stress-sensing model are exponentially increasing. But, the mechanisms by which specific signals are recognized by a commonly-occurring pathway are not yet clearly understood.
Therefore, we attempt to find and understand the model signaling pathway in plants and the underlying molecular mechanisms that integrate multiple inputs; including hormonal, signals transduction, and environmental signaling into a common pathway.
Multidisciplinary approaches applied across the whole spectrum of plant science are particularly encouraged, including techniques from molecular and cell biology, genome editing, functional genomics, modeling, and system-based approaches.
This Research Topic aims to summarize current knowledge of the cross-regulatory pathway interactions that orchestrate plant growth and development as being linked to environmental fluctuation. The submission of this special issue is connected to fundamental and applied aspects in plant physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, and related interdisciplinary fields.
The scope of this research topic consists of five sections, including plant signaling, environment stress, hormone signaling, ROS signaling, and redox signaling. The research considered for peer review must address mechanisms and processes from molecular to physiological responses, and can include:
• Plant signaling: Intra/inter-cellular signaling, long-distance signaling, physiology, development, eco-Devo – phenotypic plasticity, transport
• Environment stress: environment stress, plant-abiotic stress interaction, plant-biotic stress interaction
• Hormone signaling: hormone-stress signaling, hormone-plant development, hormone crosstalk
• ROS signaling: oxidative stress, ROS signal, ROS-antioxidant
• Redox signaling: Redox-stress tolerance, Redox-ROS interaction