Gibberellins in Focus: General Insights and Modern Plant Resilience

Gibberellins (GAs) play diverse and essential roles as plant hormones, regulating key aspects of plant growth, development, and adaptation to stressful environments. Recent research continues to reveal new functions for GAs across developmental stages, from influencing seed germination and stem elongation to modulating flowering, fruit development, and responses to both abiotic and biotic stresses.

This Research Topic invites contributions that expand our understanding of GA biology, with special attention to how GAs enhance plant resilience and productivity in modern agriculture. Studies may explore molecular and physiological mechanisms, regulatory pathways, hormone crosstalk, and innovative approaches for manipulating GA signaling to optimize crop performance under changing and challenging conditions. Investigations utilizing advanced techniques—such as mutant analysis, grafting, omics strategies, and precision breeding—are especially welcome for uncovering novel aspects of GA-mediated stress responses and growth control.

We invite articles addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:

• Novel insights into GA biosynthesis, transport, and signaling.
• Integration of GA pathways with other hormonal and metabolic networks.
• GA roles in adaptive development and stress tolerance mechanisms.
• Strategies for the strategic manipulation of GA pathways for crop improvement and resilience.
• Applications of GA biology in sustainable crop management and resistance breeding.
• Methodological advances (including molecular, physiological, and/or computational approaches) for studying GA function.

This collection seeks to foster a broader view of gibberellin biology in contemporary plant science, driving innovations for the future of plant resilience and agricultural sustainability.

Article types and fees

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• Opinion
• Original Research
• Perspective
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Article types

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• Opinion
• Original Research
• Perspective
• Review
• Systematic Review

Keywords: Gibberellins, plant physiology, plant hormones, root-shoot communication, GA, phytohormones, plant growth regulation, GA biosynthesis, GA signaling pathway, gibberellin transport, molecular regulation, plant development, long-range signaling, hormonal networks, hormone interactions, auxin-gibberellin crosstalk, cytokinin-gibberellin interaction, signaling integration, metabolic networks, plant stress resilience, stress tolerance, environmental adaptation, abiotic stress, biotic stress, crop productivity, sustainable agriculture, crop improvement, resistance breeding, agricultural biotechnology, crop management, plant resilience, mutant analysis, grafting experiments, genetic analysis, biochemical analysis, history of gibberellin research, evolution of plant hormones, plant science innovation

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.