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Genetic Adaptation of Agroforestry to Climate Change: Diversity, Development and Function

A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Genetics and Molecular Biology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2024 | Viewed by 813

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Jichen Xu

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National Engineering Laboratory for Tree Breeding, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
Interests: gene function; alternative splicing; stress resistance; molecular evolution

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

During their long-term environmental adaptation, forest plants have created their own survival mechanisms, which contain the diversity of their gene resources and gene expression regulation mechanisms. In this Special Issue, we intend to focus on the gene identification, functional evaluation, and expression regulation process in forest species in adaptation to various environmental conditions, so as to examine their diversity adaptation mechanisms and potentially provide a blueprint and greater gene resources for the molecular design and breeding of forest trees.

We are interested in papers on topics including the following:

  • Gene identification and functional evaluation;
  • Gene diversity in adaption to growth conditions;
  • Gene alternative splicing in adaption to growth conditions;
  • Gene expression regulation in adaption to growth conditions;
  • Gene networks in adaption to growth conditions;
  • Genetic transformation of forest trees.

Prof. Dr. Jichen Xu
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • gene
  • alternative splicing
  • abiotic stress
  • transformation
  • gene editing

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Antifreeze Evaluation of Two Dehydrin Proteins from Pseudotsuga menziesii and Larix principis-rupprechtii Mayr
by Xiao Liu, Qihong Zhao, Mengtian Li, Junkang Zhang, Lei Wang and Jichen Xu
Forests 2023, 14(8), 1632; https://doi.org/10.3390/f14081632 - 12 Aug 2023
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Dehydrins exist widely in plants and play an important role in abiotic stress resistance. Two low-temperature-induced dehydrin-like genes, PmCAP and LpCAP, from the pine species Pseudotsuga menziesii and Larix principis-rupprechtii Mayr were cloned and found to contain 576 bp and 687 bp, [...] Read more.
Dehydrins exist widely in plants and play an important role in abiotic stress resistance. Two low-temperature-induced dehydrin-like genes, PmCAP and LpCAP, from the pine species Pseudotsuga menziesii and Larix principis-rupprechtii Mayr were cloned and found to contain 576 bp and 687 bp, encoding 191 and 228 amino acids, respectively. Both genes were individually assembled into prokaryotic expression vectors and transferred into E. coli cells. When transgenic stains were cultured at −5 °C, the lethal time 50% (LT50) was 50 h and 54 h for PmCAP and LpCAP, respectively, compared with 32 h for the control. When cultured at −20 °C, the LT50 was 38 h, 41 h, and 25 h for PmCAP, LpCAP, and the control. Thermal hysteresis (TH) testing of PmCAP and LpCAP proteins revealed TH values of 0.27 °C and 0.72 °C, respectively, relative to 0.05 °C for the BSA control. These results indicate that the two pine dehydrin proteins have antifreeze characteristics and that their antifreeze levels were well in relation to the environmental conditions of pine growth (Larix principis-rupprechtii Mayr mostly grows in cold and high-altitude zones, while Pseudotsuga menziesii grows in temperate and low-altitude zones). LpCAP, especially, could be a better gene resource for the molecular breeding of plant cold resistance. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Genetic Adaptation of Agroforestry to Climate Change: Diversity, Development and Function)
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