Plant Genomics Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change

Call for Papers

Climate change causing a long-term shift in the average and variation in the weather is supposed to be accompanied by changes in temperature, wind patterns, and precipitation of a region. To cope with these imminent environmental changes, we need to reduce the potential causes and stabilize human food production. Crop production is very sensitive to environmental changes, mainly since many crop plants have been selected primarily for high production. However, plant genomics is producing enormous amounts of genome-related information and stimulating the development of novel methods to help understand and improve crop plants.

We invite investigators to submit original research and review articles on genomics technology and biology that can contribute to our understanding and improvement of crop plants to specific features related to climate change. The environmental factors considered that relate to climate change include heat, drought, flooding, disease, elevated CO₂, and ultraviolet-B radiation. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Analysis of transcriptomic/metabolomic/proteomic and other “-omics” changes in response to environmental stresses related to climate change such as heat, drought, flooding, disease, elevated CO₂, and ultraviolet-B radiation
• Elucidation of the plant signaling mechanisms and adaptation in response to environmental factors related to climate change
• Studies on the genetic variation in crop plants for plant adaptation to climate change related environmental stresses
• Evaluation of new crops using genomics tools to meet climate change needs
• Development of genomics-based breeding methods to improve plants for stability and adaptation to climate change environmental stresses
• Designing crops for the future using genomics knowledge and tools for stable crop production

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijpg/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• Andy Pereira, Department of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA

Guest Editors

• Luis Herrera-Estrella, National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute, Irapuato, GTO, Mexico
• Jan Leach, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
• Sudhir Sopory, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India