Editorial: Plant responses to abiotic stress: unraveling complex mechanisms through genomics and physiology

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Mizanur Rahman, Takashi Asaeda, and Md Harun Rashid introduce a Research Topic in a 2026 editorial. It gathers studies on how plants withstand non-living stresses such as drought, salt, flooding, poor soil, and heat. As the climate grows more erratic, understanding how plants sense stress and answer it is a food security priority.

The editorial threads the collection through themes. Redox balance recurs. Flooding and salt studies in oak, antioxidant enzyme patterns in sweet potato breeding lines, and a genome-wide map of detox genes in blueberry all point one way. Tight control of reactive oxygen is core to tolerance. Photosynthesis protection is another thread, from cranberry drought damage to cotton heat genes and light-tuned okra rootstocks. Hormone signaling and stress gene regulation round out the picture. The editors argue the combined physiological, biochemical, and genomic views move the field toward crops bred for real-world stress.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/PMC13333453