Guest Editors
Dr. Hélcio Silva dos Santos
Email: helcio_santos@uvanet.br
Affiliation: Departamento de Quimica, Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú, Sobra, 62.040-370, Brasil
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Research Interests: natural products, organic synthesis, zebrafish, essential oil
Dr. Jane Eire Silva Alencar de Menezes
Email: jane.menezes@uece.br
Affiliation: Departamento de Quimica, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, 60.714.903, Brasil
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Research Interests: natural products, zebrafish, essential oil
Summary
This Special Issue brings together cutting-edge advances across the diverse fields that shape modern plant science, highlighting the integration of physiology, metabolism, gene function, ecology, evolution, and environmental responsiveness. Plants exhibit extraordinary biochemical and physiological plasticity, enabling them to adapt to fluctuating environments while maintaining growth, productivity, and metabolic specialization. Recent progress in molecular biology, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics has expanded our understanding of the regulatory networks controlling plant development, stress signaling pathways, secondary metabolism, and bioactive compound biosynthesis. This issue welcomes research that unravels the mechanisms governing plant physiological processes, metabolic routes, and gene regulatory circuits, as well as studies exploring ecological interactions, evolutionary patterns, and bioinformatic approaches that uncover hidden molecular complexity. Additionally, contributions focusing on horticultural innovations, crop improvement, and medicinal plant biology—particularly those addressing functional metabolites with pharmacological relevance—are strongly encouraged. By integrating fundamental and applied perspectives, this Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive platform for interdisciplinary discoveries that advance plant biology and support sustainable agricultural, ecological, and biotechnological solutions. Contributions from researchers worldwide will help illuminate how plants sense, respond, and adapt to their environment while shaping ecosystems and offering valuable biochemical resources.
Keywords
plant physiology, plant metabolism, gene function, stress signaling, medicinal plants, bioinformatics
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