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Potassium transport and plant adaptation to hostile environments

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Potassium is an essential macronutrient that plays a critical role in numerous physiological and biochemical processes in plants such as enzyme activation, stabilization of protein synthesis, tropisms, stomata functioning, membrane potential control and charge balance, phloem loading, and cytosolic pH homeostasis. In recent years evidence has emerged for the role of potassium as a signalling molecule, with implications to cell fate determination, plant development, and stress signalling.

This Special Issue aims to summarize the current knowledge on operation of potassium transport in plant adaptive responses to major abiotic tresses. This includes (but not limited to) drought, salinity, flooding, temperature extremes, oxidative stress, and nutrient deficiencies and toxicities. As such, we welcome articles focusing on the role of K+ in stress sensing and signalling, its radial and long-distant transport, the role and operational modes of specific K+ transporters in plant adaptation to hostile environments, and the causal link between K+ nutrition/homeostasis and cell development, programmed cell death, autophagy, and retrograde signalling.

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Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have carefully read the Submission Guidelines for Stress Biology. The complete manuscript should be submitted online through: https://www.editorialmanager.com/sbio

To ensure that you submit to the correct special issue, please select the appropriate special issue title under the 'Additional information' tab upon submission. In addition, indicate within your cover letter that you wish your manuscript to be considered as part of the special issue 'Potassium transport and plant adaptation to hostile environments'.

All submissions will undergo rigorous peer review and accepted articles will be published within the journal as a collection.

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