Forthcoming Special Issues
Crop Improvement & Plant Resilience to Abiotic Stresses
Frequently changing climatic conditions tied with extreme weather events (temperature extremes, drought or flooding, soil and air quality, light intensity), war or war- like situation, global population expansion, degraded agriculturally viable land area and soil microflora, and increasing incidence of diseases, poses serious threat to crop production and hence to global food security. The climatic variables significantly affect the species reproduction and performance in terms of crop yield. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) figured out that the prevailing global climate change pose economy-wide repercussions, thus it is imperative to adopt all possible modern technological measures to mitigate the adverse effects on crop yield. Therefore, it is imperative to identify and develop climate-resilient crops with high yielding potential, and improved abiotic stress tolerance by employing modern biotechnological tools like molecular breeding, genetic engineering, genome editing etc.
Thematic areas include, but are not limited to:
Physiological and molecular basis of abiotic stress tolerance and crop improvement
Plant genetic engineering, molecular breeding, genome editing approaches for abiotic stress tolerance and crop improvement
Multi-omics approaches to understand the regulatory aspects of crop improvement
In-silico biology approaches for abiotic stress tolerance and crop improvement
Role of regulatory gene networks in abiotic stress responses and crop improvement
Chromatin remodeling, DNA damage, repair and signaling pathways in plants under abiotic stresses
Guest editors:
Dr. M. NAEEM
Email: [email protected] ; [email protected]
Organization: Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, INDIA
Dr. SARVAJEET SINGH GILL
Email: [email protected]
Organization: 221/Stress Physiology & Molecular Biology Lab, Centre for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India
Dr. TARIQ AFTAB
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Organization: Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, INDIA
Prof. NARENDRA TUTEJA
Email: [email protected]
Organization: International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB, India), New Delhi, India
Manuscript submission information:
Please submit your manuscript before the submission deadline. All submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers.
The author instructions and paper submission information can be found at Plant Science | Journal | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier. As regards the online submission system of Plant Science, the authors are invited to follow the link “Submit your Paper”, located on the main page of the Journal website, and submit the manuscript to Article Type “VSI: Climate-Resilient Crops” in Plant Science.
Submission deadline: 31/03/2023
Keywords:
Climate change, Climate-resilient crops, Abiotic stresses, Genetic engineering, Genome editing, Crop improvement, Speed breeding
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Lipid signaling in plant physiology
Lipids have essential functions in plants among which compartmentation of the cell and barrier to unrestricted trafficking of molecules as building blocks of the membranes, contribution to cell trafficking through vesicle formation, or intermediates in the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites and storage compounds. However, it is now widely recognized that, in addition to these functions in structure and metabolism, they are essential players in cell signaling. Numerous studies have highlighted their essential role in physiological situations as diverse as plant-pathogen interactions, response to changes in the biotic environment (cold, drought, etc.), or regulation of developmental processes (seed germination, flowering....). A particularly fascinating point is the way in which lipids can combine their functions as structuring elements and signaling actors : for instance lipids of a membrane are essential elements of its structure, but also of its heterogeneous organization (domains, asymmetry), as well as regulators of the dynamics of this organization and modulators of the activity of proteins associated with the membrane. Identifying the different ways by which lipids regulate cell signaling, highlighting how they can combine several of these modalities, deciphering their role in various physiological situations offers immeasurable exploration perspectives when taking into account their incredible diversity in plants.
The development of lipidomics and of a variety of tools for real-time dynamic localization of cellular lipids together with the use of molecular modeling have given a new scope to this theme, which represents a major challenge for plant biology, both in its fundamental aspects and for the resulting applications in plant production.
Guest editors:
Francoise SIMON-PLAS, INRAE, UMR Agroecologie, DIJON, France
Susanne Hoffmann-Benning, Michigan State University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, East Lansing, USA
Overseeing Editor:
David Wendehenne, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France
Manuscript submission information:
PLANT SCIENCE will consider manuscripts for publication for the special issue beginning on September 1, 2022 with December 15th, 2022 being the deadline date for consideration.
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