In the proposed Special Issue, we are looking for original research articles and reviews focusing on transporter proteins (minerals, sugar, hormone, growth regulator…) and their role in stress tolerance mechanisms in plants.
Sensing stress signals and quick responses are crucial for plants to overcome the stress and minimize metabolic losses. In this regard, solute transporters play a significant role in plant response to stresses by transporting across the membranes a variety of molecules and ions necessary for physiological processes like signal transduction, osmotic adjustment, and ion homeostasis. For example, recent studies have established the role of sugar transporter in plant disease development. Similarly, aquaporins, are now known to not only be involved in the transport of small uncharged solutes (water, urea, CO2, silicon, and boron) but recent studies suggest a much more comprehensive range of solute transported through the aquaporins. Many transporter families (ABC, ZIP, NHX, HKT, TMT, and CDF to cite a few) are being extensively studied in plants.
Rapidly growing publicly available genomics data, recent development in analytical tools and techniques facilitated the study of transport kinetics.
Moreover, the development of several approaches resolving the tertiary structure of transporter proteins, notoriously difficult to crystallize, has sharply increased available protein tertiary structures.
Deadline: end of March 2020 PROLONGED TO JUNE
Submit article to: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ppl
Guest Editors
Dr. Rupesh Deshmukh
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali, India
rupesh0deshmukh@gmail.com; rupesh@nabi.res.in
Dr. Durgesh Kumar Tripathi
Amity Institute of Organic Agriculture (AIOA), Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India
dktripathiau@gmail.com
Dr. Henry Nguyen
Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, MO, USA
nguyenhenry@missouri.edu
Dr. Humira Sonah
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali, India
biohuma@gmail.com; humira@nabi.res.in