Biomolecules Involved in Plant Immune System
A special issue of Biomolecules (ISSN 2218-273X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 September 2022) | Viewed by 400
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant immune system; plant pests; biochemistry; immunology; nematodes; oxygen metabolism
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants, same as all long-lived organisms, must discern between self and non-self to survive in a challenging environment. The capability to recognize and react to non-self is deputed to a complex immune system which must be highly specific, with restricted self-reactivity, and able to generate a lifelong “memory” of the attacking pathogens/parasites. Plants, through co-evolution with pathogens/parasites, have produced intracellular immune receptors known as resistance (R) proteins. Recognition of pathogens/parasites effectors triggers the production of many biomolecules which can be toxic to the invading pest (anti-microbial molecules) and/or induce a hypersensitive response (HR), which is typically associated with programmed cell death (PCD) and tissue necrosis. Local HR can also “immunize” the whole plant against future infections.
Although the mechanisms of recognition and immune responses have been extensively studied in the recent past, the role of the many biomolecules involved is still to be clarified. We need to obtain insights into the role of many transcription factors, pathogenesis-related proteins, inflammatory and anti-inflammatory compounds, hormones, reactive oxygen species, antioxidant systems, etc., to determine the expression of immunity against the most important pathogens and parasites.
Therefore, the scope of this Special Issue is to collect original research articles and up-to-date reviews on the abovementioned biomolecules to better understand the molecular mechanisms of plant immunology which present high analogies with those operating in animal and human immunology.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Sergio Molinari
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Biomolecules is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
