Plant Cell Walls: Frontlines for Facing and Coping with Environment Challenges
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Cell Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 712
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant cell walls; plant development; plant signal transduction; response to cell wall damage; response to abiotic and biotic stresses; cellular signalling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plant cell walls are fascinating and complex structures involved in a plethora of functions in plants. Cell wall modifications are tightly regulated and are essential during plant growth and development. Cell walls also act as a physical barrier against pathogen invasion, and genetically or chemically induced cell wall changes affect a plant’s ability to respond to external threats.
In recent years, research from several groups has revealed that plants are able to directly perceive the changes in cell wall integrity. When such ‘wall-damage’ responses are triggered, plants can activate intracellular pathways able to repair or attenuate the damage. Cell wall alteration and the subsequential signaling responses seem to happen not only in response to pathogens, but also in response to abiotic stressors such as salinity, heat, drought etc. Cell walls are also a reservoir of potential fragments released during active cell wall degradation which have been described as important for the activation of plant immune responses likely limiting pathogen attacks.
With the upcoming Special Issue, we aim to gather information on the effect of biotic and abiotic stresses on cell wall alterations, likely connecting them to cellular adaptation and intracellular signaling. This Special Issue welcomes results from the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana as well as from other plant species. Collecting this evidence will be of particular importance to enhance our current knowledge on crucial mechanisms in plants which might lead to a wide spectrum of alternatives to counteract the possible environmental problems of the near future.
Dr. Nora Gigli Bisceglia
Dr. Anirban Baral
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant cell walls
- cell wall integrity
- plant growth
- plant development
- response to biotic stress
- response to abiotic stress
- plant signalling
- technical advance
