This Research Topic is part of the article collection series -
Surviving and Thriving: How Crops Perceive and Respond to Temperature Stress.
The dramatic temperature fluctuations spurred by climate change inhibit plant growth and threaten crop productivity. Unraveling how plants defend themselves against temperature-stress-induced cellular impairment is not only a crucial fundamental issue but is also of critical importance for agricultural sustainability and food security.
Improving crop tolerance to abiotic stress conditions requires a deep understanding of the response of plants to changes in their environment. This response is dependent on early and late signal transduction events that involve important signaling molecules such as reactive oxygen species (ROS), sugars, different plant hormones, and other signaling molecules. It is the integration of these signaling events, mediated by an interplay between ROS, sugars and different plant hormones, that orchestrates the plant response to abiotic stress and drive changes in transcriptomic, metabolic, and proteomic networks that lead to plant acclimation and survival. This Research Topic explores the crops balancing growth and temperature-stress responses, and how these findings can be used to increase crop quality and yield potential.
This Research Topic welcomes all research articles and reviews that cover the following:
• Balancing growth and temperature-stress responses in crops
• Improving temperature-stress tolerance in crops through genetic engineering
• Contrasting genotypes/cultivars (tolerant and -intolerant) under extreme temperatures
• Temperature stress signaling from the cell membrane to the nucleus
• The diverse role of sugars, ROS, and hormones (or crosstalk) in temperature stress tolerance
This Research Topic is part of the article collection series -
Surviving and Thriving: How Crops Perceive and Respond to Temperature Stress.
The dramatic temperature fluctuations spurred by climate change inhibit plant growth and threaten crop productivity. Unraveling how plants defend themselves against temperature-stress-induced cellular impairment is not only a crucial fundamental issue but is also of critical importance for agricultural sustainability and food security.
Improving crop tolerance to abiotic stress conditions requires a deep understanding of the response of plants to changes in their environment. This response is dependent on early and late signal transduction events that involve important signaling molecules such as reactive oxygen species (ROS), sugars, different plant hormones, and other signaling molecules. It is the integration of these signaling events, mediated by an interplay between ROS, sugars and different plant hormones, that orchestrates the plant response to abiotic stress and drive changes in transcriptomic, metabolic, and proteomic networks that lead to plant acclimation and survival. This Research Topic explores the crops balancing growth and temperature-stress responses, and how these findings can be used to increase crop quality and yield potential.
This Research Topic welcomes all research articles and reviews that cover the following:
• Balancing growth and temperature-stress responses in crops
• Improving temperature-stress tolerance in crops through genetic engineering
• Contrasting genotypes/cultivars (tolerant and -intolerant) under extreme temperatures
• Temperature stress signaling from the cell membrane to the nucleus
• The diverse role of sugars, ROS, and hormones (or crosstalk) in temperature stress tolerance