ROS Homeostasis during Plant Growth and Development
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921). This special issue belongs to the section "ROS, RNS and RSS".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2024) | Viewed by 3032
Special Issue Editor
Interests: reactive oxygen species signaling; ROS gradients; plant development; abiotic-stress; transcriptional regulation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Life on earth evolved in the presence of reactive oxygen species (ROS), resulting in a deep and complex connection between biological systems and ROS. Initially, ROS were identified as cell-killing compounds that rapidly found use as sterilizing agents in the pharmaceutical industry. This resulted in a generalization of ROS as toxic compounds that need to be scavenged. Over the last two decades, it has become apparent that ROS are used as signaling molecules in all kingdoms of life. Interestingly, at the subcellular level, each organelle or compartment has its own steady state level of ROS. Thus, each compartment has a specific ROS signature which is monitored by the cell to control processes. As the ROS signature alters upon stress, cells can sense and adapt accordingly. In addition, it has been shown that ROS gradients control stem cell fate in plants and that certain ROS species regulate cell proliferation and differentiation. Still, there is a lack of understanding around how plants maintain ROS gradients during development and how ROS homeostasis is modulated during growth.
This Special Issue welcomes the submission of papers that cover molecular processes and mechanisms that modulate growth and development through the regulation of ROS homeostasis in plants. In addition, insights into the regulation of adaptive growth processes that involve ROS homeostasis during stress acclimation are also warmly welcomed. Researchers are welcome to submit significant contributions as research articles/review articles/methods to this Special Issue.
Dr. Jozefus Schippers
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ROS gradients
- cell proliferation and differentiation
- stem cells
- growth and development
- ROS homeostasis
- ROS signaling
- plant evolution
