Guest Editors
Dr. Esmat Farouk Ali Ahmed, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, EGYPT
Email: esmatfarouk@yahoo.com
Summary
Plants are exposed under natural conditions multiple environmental stresses. Abiotic stress includes salinity, drought, floods (submergence stress), temperature extremes, heavy metals, etc. The plants have no choice to escape from these environmental hazards due to they are sessile in nature. These abiotic stresses negatively impact on the growth and productivity. It is also known that plant responses depend largely on the affected tissues or organs. Lately, plants have developed the numerous approaches and mechanisms have been used to overcome these stresses.
There are different methods in which various materials, including mineral, biological, and organic, are used, can overcome the negative effects of abiotic stresses, or at least mitigate those effects. These are affordable and can be used practically. On the other hand, Therefore, it is important to evaluate and explore how various molecular techniques can be applied to biological studies to improve plant tolerance to abiotic stress. From this standpoint, there is an urgent need to shed light on plant stress research, especially with the use of modern methods and materials to overcome the negative effects of these stresses, in order to understand the nature of the multiple responses to stress and to find ways to develop plants that resist multiple stresses while encouraging the highest productivity. This special issue is concerned with the influences of abiotic stress on plants, focusing on work on physiological and molecular mechanisms or any anatomical or morphological adaptations.
The guest-editor encourages scientists to contribute original papers or reviews relevant to the effects of any abiotic environmental stresses on plants and this would be most welcomed.
Keywords
drought, salinity, ROS, waterlogging, oxidative stress, plant abiotic stress tolerance, gene regulation, adaptations, Nanoparticles as a new type of plant stressor, miRNAs involved in abiotic stress in plants
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