Responses of Crops to Abiotic Stress
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 788
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate change; agricultural sustainability; circular economy; soil, water and biodiversity conservation; remote sensing; plant breeding; ecosystem services; olive growing
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Interests: olive pollination; biochemical and anatomical characterization of the olive abscission zone in fruits and leaves; olive breeding program; the effects of climate change on olive productivity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
At present, the agricultural industry is undergoing a marked transformation in adjusting to today’s economic and climatic demands. Global climate change is identified as a major threat to the survival of natural ecosystems. Climate change is a dynamic, multifaceted system of alterations in environmental conditions that affect abiotic and biotic components of the world. It results in alterations in environmental conditions such as heat waves, rainfall intensity, CO2 concentration and temperature that lead to a rise in new pests, weeds and
pathogens. As such, climate change has affected plant physiology. Abiotic stresses are often interrelated in causing morphological, physiological, biochemical and molecular changes that adversely affect plant growth and productivity, ultimately leading to a reduced yield. The sexual reproductive phase in plants has been proven to be vulnerable to the negative effects of abiotic stress.
The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together the latest advances in various aspects of the effects of climate change on crop yield and quality. We welcome original research papers, perspectives, opinions, reviews, modeling approaches and methods that will be of interest to all those involved in adapting agriculture to the challenges of the modern world and the current and future environmental conditions.
Dr. Georgios Koubouris
Dr. Giora Ben-Ari
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- stress
- plant physiology
- resilience
- plant phenoty**
- drought
- water
- soil
- biodiversity
- ecosystem
- ecology
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Morpho-physiochemical and transcriptome analysis reveal the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) induced by drought stress in Dracocephalum moldavica L.
Authors: Ge **ao-min; Li Sha-sha; Bai Guo-qing; Chen Chen*
Affiliation: Shaanxi Engineering Research Centre for Conservation and Utilization of Botanical Resources, **’an Botanical Garden of Shaanxi Province, Institute of Botany of Shaanxi Province, No. 17 Cuihua South Road, **’an 710061, China
Abstract: Dracocephalum moldavica is a traditional folk medicine, which has the effects of purging liver fire, clearing stomach heat and hemostasis. Drought stress seriously reduce the photosynthetic activity of D. moldavica, and the molecular mechanisms underlying drought tolerance remain elusive. In this study, we conducted comparative transcriptome and physiological analyses of D. moldavica subjected to drought treatment at the seedling stage for 24 h and 48 h. 15% PEG treatment induced ROS generation and membrane lipid peroxidation in D. moldavica seedlings. The RNA-seq transcriptome analysis was extracted from the leaves and roots of D. moldavica seedlings that we identified 3690 DEGs from comparing CK versus PEG of leaves and 145 DEGs in roots. In leaves, 1558 genes of 3690 DEGs were upregulated, and in roots, 89 genes of 145 DEGs were upregulated. Moreover, the numbers of upregulated and downregulated genes were more in leaves than in roots of drought imposition. The upregulated DEGs were predominantly associated with the cytoskeleton, cell wall modification, transport, osmotic regulation, drought avoidance, ROS scavengers, defense, and transcriptional factors. Furthermore, we selected DEGs which were related to ROS for quantitative real-time PCR analysis. A high significant correlation between RNA-seq and qRT-PCR data was observed, which confirmed the authenticity of the DEGs in this study. Our findings will contribute to the understanding of the abiotic stress resilience mechanism in D. moldavica and provide new insights to improve D. moldavica drought tolerance in the future.
