Towards Stress-resilient Horticultural Species and Crops: Promoting Tolerance Through Novel Molecular Insights and Adaptive Mechanisms

Horticultural crops play a vital role in global agriculture, providing essential nutrients and economic benefits. However, these crops often face various abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, and nutrient deficiencies, which can significantly impede their growth and yield. Addressing these challenges requires a comprehensive understanding of the underlying molecular mechanisms that enable plants to respond and adapt to such conditions. Recent studies have revealed complex signaling pathways, transcriptional regulations, and metabolic adjustments that play crucial roles in plant stress responses. Despite these advances, a significant gap remains in translating this knowledge into practical solutions for enhancing stress resilience in horticultural plants.

This Research Topic aims to elucidate the molecular responses and adaptive mechanisms of horticultural crops under abiotic stress conditions. It seeks to uncover the intricate networks of genes, proteins, and metabolites involved in stress sensing, signaling, and adaptation processes. By focusing on key questions such as which molecular pathways are paramount for specific stress adaptations, or how genetic modifications could enhance stress tolerance, this topic endeavors to contribute to the development of sustainable practices and improved crop varieties.

To gather further insights into the molecular response of horticultural crops to abiotic stress, we welcome articles addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:

- Identification of key genes and proteins involved in stress response pathways
- Role of epigenetic modifications in regulating stress responses
- Advanced biotechnological approaches for enhancing stress resistance
- Integrative modeling of metabolic and signaling networks under stress conditions

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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
• Policy and Practice Reviews
• Review
• Systematic Review

Keywords: abiotic stress tolerance, horticultural crops, multi-omics integration, crispr/cas gene editing, climate-resilient breeding

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