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Stress Biology - Call for Papers --- Special Issue "Salicylic acid and stress biology"

Salicylic acid (SA) is a naturally occurring versatile plant hormone with essential roles in plant growth, development, and stress response. SA has been demonstrated to improve resistance to many pathogens such as viruses, fungi and bacteria, and tolerance to major abiotic stresses such as salinity, drought, osmotic, metal, heat and chilling, and radiation stress.

For establishing resistance to the pathogen, accumulation of SA triggers a number of immune responses, like massive transcriptional reprogramming, cell wall strengthening, and production of secondary metabolites and antimicrobial proteins. For improving tolerance to abiotic stress, SA was reported to stimulate expression of a number of genes encoding chaperone, heat shock proteins (HSPs), antioxidants, and secondary metabolites sinapyl alcohol dehydrogenase (SAD), cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD), and cytochrome P450. SA was also known to have a regulatory role in mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade.

This special issue aims to publish studies that focus on the following topics, but not limited to:

  1. The regulation of SA biosynthesis and signaling pathways.
  2. The crosstalk between SA and other hormones.
  3. Molecular mechanism underling SA-mediated plant defense against phytopathogens.
  4. SA-mediated plant tolerance to abiotic stress, such as drought, salinity, and temperature stress.
  5. The application of SA-based strategies for crop improvement and stress mitigation.
  6. Techniques for the quantification and analysis of SA-mediated signaling pathways.

Reviews, original research papers, short communications and highlights can be submitted to the special issue. Publication fee will be waived for all accepted articles. The journal follows the peer review policy (this opens in a new tab) of Stress Biology for all the special issue submissions.


Guest editor: Dr. Jian Chen (jianchen@ujs.edu.cn (this opens in a new tab)),  Jiangsu University, China

Co-guest editor: Dr. Huan Chen (huan.chen@sjtu.edu.cn (this opens in a new tab)), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Submission deadline: 30 September 2024

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