In nature, plants are constantly facing adverse environmental conditions, including abiotic stresses such as low and high temperature, salinity, drought, flood, heavy metal toxicity and oxidative stress. These environmental factors impact plant survival, yield, reproduction, and growth. These stresses, especially drought, salinity, and high temperature, are the major causes of crop loss around the globe. To overcome these abiotic stresses, plants respond simultaneously through several tolerance mechanisms to counter the disturbances and retain protection and health. These responses to abiotic stresses depend on the developmental stage and the age of the plant, when the stress is imposed, as well as the severity and duration of the stress event. The plant response to one or more stresses is also determined by genotype and species. Further, the responses and tolerance mechanisms to abiotic stress develop at multiple levels, including physiological, morphological, anatomical, tissue, cellular and molecular levels.
Recent advances in the field of genetics, cell and molecular biology, agricultural biotechnology, physiology, and biochemistry have shed light into addressing the significant questions related to responses against several kinds of abiotic stresses. Tolerance mechanisms include developing plant immunity through apparatuses of the plasma membrane, the key site of perception of all these stresses. This Research Topic encourages leading plant biologists to submit their studies on advancing our understanding about fundamental processes, stress signaling, and adaptation mechanisms that develop in plants in response to various abiotic stresses. This Research Topic aims to collect recent updates and novel findings on different kinds of abiotic stresses including drought, salinity, heat, flooding, heavy metals, etc. and their application in crop management and improvement.
This Research Topic welcomes submissions of the following article types: Original Research, Methods, Reviews and Mini Reviews, Opinions, Perspectives, covering the following but not limited to:
• Plant unique molecular, biochemical, and physiological responses to abiotic stresses
• Contributions of key genes and novel pathways involved in abiotic stress tolerance
• Stress perception, signal translation, abiotic severity and plant adaptation and defense system
• Mechanisms of abiotic stress responses and tolerance
• Metabolic regulations in response to abiotic stress
• Novel approaches of molecular breeding and genetic engineering for understanding and management of abiotic stress response
In nature, plants are constantly facing adverse environmental conditions, including abiotic stresses such as low and high temperature, salinity, drought, flood, heavy metal toxicity and oxidative stress. These environmental factors impact plant survival, yield, reproduction, and growth. These stresses, especially drought, salinity, and high temperature, are the major causes of crop loss around the globe. To overcome these abiotic stresses, plants respond simultaneously through several tolerance mechanisms to counter the disturbances and retain protection and health. These responses to abiotic stresses depend on the developmental stage and the age of the plant, when the stress is imposed, as well as the severity and duration of the stress event. The plant response to one or more stresses is also determined by genotype and species. Further, the responses and tolerance mechanisms to abiotic stress develop at multiple levels, including physiological, morphological, anatomical, tissue, cellular and molecular levels.
Recent advances in the field of genetics, cell and molecular biology, agricultural biotechnology, physiology, and biochemistry have shed light into addressing the significant questions related to responses against several kinds of abiotic stresses. Tolerance mechanisms include developing plant immunity through apparatuses of the plasma membrane, the key site of perception of all these stresses. This Research Topic encourages leading plant biologists to submit their studies on advancing our understanding about fundamental processes, stress signaling, and adaptation mechanisms that develop in plants in response to various abiotic stresses. This Research Topic aims to collect recent updates and novel findings on different kinds of abiotic stresses including drought, salinity, heat, flooding, heavy metals, etc. and their application in crop management and improvement.
This Research Topic welcomes submissions of the following article types: Original Research, Methods, Reviews and Mini Reviews, Opinions, Perspectives, covering the following but not limited to:
• Plant unique molecular, biochemical, and physiological responses to abiotic stresses
• Contributions of key genes and novel pathways involved in abiotic stress tolerance
• Stress perception, signal translation, abiotic severity and plant adaptation and defense system
• Mechanisms of abiotic stress responses and tolerance
• Metabolic regulations in response to abiotic stress
• Novel approaches of molecular breeding and genetic engineering for understanding and management of abiotic stress response