Plant Hydraulic Function under Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Physiology and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 October 2022) | Viewed by 275
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant water relations; plant hydraulics; drought; tree mortality; non-structural carbohydrate; embolism; extensive green roof technology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forests and crop systems are currently challenged by climate extremes, with drought, heat waves, fires, anomalous flooding and freezing events occurring at unprecedented intensity and frequency. Concurrently, pathogen attacks are exacerbated by climate anomalies and plant stress, posing additional issues to plant survival. Indeed, we are assisting to widespread episodes of plant decline and mortality, with related negative impacts on agricultural and forest productivity.
The maintenance of root-to-leaf water transport and tissue hydration is crucial for the survival and competitive success of vascular land plants under a changing climate. It is also well known that carbon assimilation and metabolism are affected by climate extremes, but the role of carbohydrate availability and metabolism in the abiotic and biotic stress tolerance and resilience needs clarifications.
This Special Issue of Plants encourages the submission of manuscripts (original research articles, reviews) targeted on-field or controlled experiments investigating the impact of abiotic stress factors (drought, heat, flooding, salinity, freezing) or pathogens, as well as their combination, on plant water transport, with a special focus on xylem hydraulics. Hydraulic-carbon metabolism interactions as well as the investigation of long-term stress-induced legacy effects and post-stress resilience processes are also welcome. Studies investigating the impact of root-soil and root-bedrock relationships will be also considered.
Dr. Martina Tomasella
Prof. Dr. Andrea Nardini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant hydraulics
- biotic stress
- abiotic stress
- drought
- xylem
- vascular pathogens
- climate change
- stress recovery
- stress resistance
