Plant Defense Mechanisms and Molecular Recognition

Submission Deadline: 30 September 2025 View: 37 Submit to Special Issue

Guest Editors

Prof. Dr. Rosalba Troncoso Rojas

Email: rtroncoso@ciad.mx

Affiliation: Research Center for Food and Development. Department of Horticultural Products. Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology and Postharvest Handling. Carretera Gustavo E. Astiazarán Rosas # 46, Colonia La Victoria, Hermosillo, 83304, Mexico.

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Research Interests: postharvest handling and technology of fruits and vegetables, postharvest physiology and biochemistry, postharvest pathology, plant defense mechanism

Prof. Dr. Martín Ernesto Tiznado Hernández

Email: tiznado@ciad.mx

Affiliation: Research Center for Food and Development. Department of Horticultural Products. Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology. Carretera Gustavo Enrique Astiazarán Rosas, No. 46, 83304 Hermosillo, México.

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Research Interests: postharvest physiology, plant molecular biology, plant physiology

Summary

Plants constantly face challenges from various pathogens, compromising their survival and reducing productivity. Phytopathogenic infection induces several cellular processes and metabolic pathways, including the activation of signal transduction. As a result, a complex defense response is activated, such as modifications of the cell wall by the random creation of bonds between cell wall polymers, as well as the induction of reactive oxygen species, release of nitric oxide, synthesis of calcium-dependent protein kinases, stimulation of MAP kinases and the activation of pathogenesis-related proteins. Altogether, all these elements play an important role in the defense against pathogens. Studying these molecular events through novel technologies, such as the omics sciences, will allow the generation of knowledge that will help understand these complex defense networks.

For this special issue, we welcome reviews, perspectives, original research, opinions, and methods that highlight the latest exciting progress in elucidating the plant defense mechanism and plants' molecular, physiological, and biochemical responses to biotic stresses.

Potential subjects for this topic include, but are not limited to:

Plant cell wall, plant cuticle, microbial and pathogen-associated molecular pattern receptors, signal transduction pathways, pathogenesis-related proteins, as well as transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomics of plant-pathogen interaction.

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