Plants are sessile organisms so they are exposed to various abiotic stresses such as drought, high temperature, salinity, and heavy metal toxicity during their lifecycle. This requires the rapid recognition and response to adverse environments and plants have different strategies to cope with these changes. These major challenges affect plant growth, development , yield, and seed quality negatively. Since the world population is increasing at an alarming rate, minimizing these negative effects is one of the major concerns to meet food demand. Although plants have their own dynamic systems and response to these challenges, some techniques and technologies are used to have a better understanding and improving these dynamic and complex systems.

We are highly interested in manuscripts that are relevant to abiotic stress factors studies and their improvement methods by using molecular biology and genetic approaches. Reviews that contain the results of the research studies to improve plants against abiotic stresses are also welcome. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Genetic engineering in abiotic stress tolerance
• Stress resistant plants
• Omics technologies used for improvement of tolerant plants
• Stress responsive genes, transcription factors, and proteins
• Plant responses under stress conditions

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