Genetic, Epigenetic and Microbiota Molecular Insights for Crop Resilience to Abiotic Stress in Times of Climate Change
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 August 2024 | Viewed by 79
Special Issue Editor
Interests: molecular biology; epigenetic regulation; abiotic stress; gene regulatory networks; multi-omics; microbiomes; environmental stress resiliency; plant genetic variability
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The ongoing climate change poses major challenges to plant development leading to severe reduction in crop productivity and yield. Abiotic stresses such as drought, elevated temperatures, increased salinity, extreme weather phenomena, exert major pressures on crop sustainability and threaten global food security.
Developing ways to safeguard crop and food systems relies greatly on illuminating the cellular processes and molecular mechanisms underlying stress perception, stress response and acquisition of resilience in crop species. The response to adverse environmental conditions involves the intricate relations of gene networks and gene expression programs induced by various abiotic stressors. Furthermore, epigenetic factors, such as DNA methylation, histone modifications, action of small RNAs, play crucial roles in regulating the molecular mechanisms associated with abiotic stress response and establishment of tolerance. Moreover, the microbiome (soil, rhizosphere, phyllosphere, carposphere) has an ever-increasing impact on plant development and environmental stress resilience.
This Special Issue will focus on recent advances in the genetic, epigenetic and microbiota aspects of crop response to abiotic stress as well as their interactions. We welcome contributions in this multidisciplinary field.
Dr. Aliki Kapazoglou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- abiotic stress
- tolerance
- crop resilience
- crop sustainability
- environmental conditions
- climate change
- gene regulation
- epigenetic mechanisms
- microbiota communities
- microbiome
