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Molecular Research in Abiotic Stress Tolerance

A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 3069

Special Issue Editors

Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: abiotic stress tolerance; metabolomics; physiology; rice germplasm resources; quantitative genetics
Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
Interests: molecular breeding in rice; abiotic tolerance; GWAS; plant genetics and genomics
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Dear Colleagues, 

Abiotic stresses are major limiting factors for plant growth, including extreme temperatures, drought stress, waterlogging, saline–alkali stress, nitrogen and phosphorus deficiencies, heavy metal pollution, etc. Plants have developed complex mechanisms to adapt to these adverse environmental conditions at the physiological and molecular levels. Although current advances have revealed several genetic bases, gene regulatory networks and prevailing metabolites underlying plant responses to various abiotic stresses, a more comprehensive and deeper understanding of abiotic stresses is still needed to adapt to climate change.

This Special Issue is focused on basic and applied research that will contribute to a better understanding of plant tolerance to various abiotic stresses.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Identification of key candidate genes/QTLs using linkage mapping and association mapping approaches
  • Regulatory network and metabolic pathways in response to abiotic stress
  • Improvement in tolerance to abiotic stress via molecular/genomic breeding strategy

Dr. Xiuqin Zhao
Dr. Fan Zhang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • abiotic stress
  • natural variation
  • functional genes
  • regulatory network
  • metabolic pathway
  • molecular mechanism
  • modern molecular breeding strategy

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OsBTBZ1 Confers Salt Stress Tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana
by Triono B. Saputro, Bello H. Jakada, Panita Chutimanukul, Luca Comai, Teerapong Buaboocha and Supachitra Chadchawan
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2023, 24(19), 14483; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms241914483 - 23 Sep 2023
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Rice (Oryza sativa L.), one of the most important commodities and a primary food source worldwide, can be affected by adverse environmental factors. The chromosome segment substitution line 16 (CSSL16) of rice is considered salt-tolerant. A comparison of the transcriptomic data of [...] Read more.
Rice (Oryza sativa L.), one of the most important commodities and a primary food source worldwide, can be affected by adverse environmental factors. The chromosome segment substitution line 16 (CSSL16) of rice is considered salt-tolerant. A comparison of the transcriptomic data of the CSSL16 line under normal and salt stress conditions revealed 511 differentially expressed sequence (DEseq) genes at the seedling stage, 520 DEseq genes in the secondary leaves, and 584 DEseq genes in the flag leaves at the booting stage. Four BTB genes, OsBTBZ1, OsBTBZ2, OsBTBN3, and OsBTBN7, were differentially expressed under salt stress. Interestingly, only OsBTBZ1 was differentially expressed at the seedling stage, whereas the other genes were differentially expressed at the booting stage. Based on the STRING database, OsBTBZ1 was more closely associated with other abiotic stress-related proteins than other BTB genes. The highest expression of OsBTBZ1 was observed in the sheaths of young leaves. The OsBTBZ1-GFP fusion protein was localized to the nucleus, supporting the hypothesis of a transcriptionally regulatory role for this protein. The bt3 Arabidopsis mutant line exhibited susceptibility to NaCl and abscisic acid (ABA) but not to mannitol. NaCl and ABA decreased the germination rate and growth of the mutant lines. Moreover, the ectopic expression of OsBTBZ1 rescued the phenotypes of the bt3 mutant line and enhanced the growth of wild-type Arabidopsis under stress conditions. These results suggest that OsBTBZ1 is a salt-tolerant gene functioning in ABA-dependent pathways. Full article
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Seed Priming with MeJa Prevents Salt-Induced Growth Inhibition and Oxidative Damage in Sorghum bicolor by Inducing the Expression of Jasmonic Acid Biosynthesis Genes
by Takalani Mulaudzi, Gershwin Sias, Mulisa Nkuna, Nzumbululo Ndou, Kaylin Hendricks, Vivian Ikebudu, Abraham J. Koo, Rachel F. Ajayi and Emmanuel Iwuoha
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2023, 24(12), 10368; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms241210368 - 20 Jun 2023
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Salinity is one of the major detrimental abiotic stresses at the forefront of deterring crop productivity globally. Although the exogenous application of phytohormones has formerly proven efficacious to plants, their effect on the moderately stress-tolerant crop “Sorghum bicolor” remains elusive. To [...] Read more.
Salinity is one of the major detrimental abiotic stresses at the forefront of deterring crop productivity globally. Although the exogenous application of phytohormones has formerly proven efficacious to plants, their effect on the moderately stress-tolerant crop “Sorghum bicolor” remains elusive. To investigate this, S. bicolor seeds primed with methyl jasmonate (0; 10 and 15 μM MeJa) were exposed to salt (200 mM NaCl) stress, and their morpho-physiological, biochemical, and molecular attributes were measured. Salt stress significantly decreased shoot length and fresh weight by 50%, whereas dry weight and chlorophyll content were decreased by more than 40%. Furthermore, salt-stress-induced oxidative damage was evident by the formation of brown formazan spots (indicative of H2O2 production) on sorghum leaves and a more than 30% increase in MDA content. However, priming with MeJa improved growth, increased chlorophyll content, and prevented oxidative damage under salt stress. While 15 µM MeJa maintained proline content to the same level as the salt-stressed samples, total soluble sugars were maintained under 10 µM MeJa, indicating a high degree of osmotic adjustment. Shriveling and thinning of the epidermis and xylem tissues due to salt stress was prevented by MeJa, followed by a more than 70% decrease in the Na+/K+ ratio. MeJa also reversed the FTIR spectral shifts observed for salt-stressed plants. Furthermore, salt stress induced the expression of the jasmonic acid biosynthesis genes; linoleate 92-lipoxygenase 3, allene oxide synthase 1, allene oxide cyclase, and 12-oxophytodienoate reductase 1. In MeJa-primed plants, their expression was reduced, except for the 12-oxophytodienoate reductase 1 transcript, which further increased by 67%. These findings suggest that MeJa conferred salt-stress tolerance to S. bicolor through osmoregulation and synthesis of JA-related metabolites. Full article
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