All beverage plants, like other plants, are growing in the dramatically changing environments and have to combat different abiotic and biotic stresses, such as cold, heat, dry, insects and diseases, and have developed adaptive mechanism in the morphological, physiological, metabolic and molecular levels. Understanding these mechanisms is of great importance for beverage plant production and produce quality.

To highlight recent developments, Beverage Plant Research invites contributions on recent discoveries in stress biology on beverage plants. We encourage authors to submit original research articles, reviews, brief communications, or perspectives for tool development or other future directions to provide basic knowledge or translational research that can advance the understanding of beverage plants in response to stresses. More specifically, we welcome manuscripts that include but are not limited to the following: (1) molecular and physiological research on beverage plants in abiotic/biotic stress response; (2) epigenetic regulation on beverage plants in abiotic/biotic stress tolerance; (3) transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics in abiotic/biotic stress response; (4) the genetic engineering in generation of beverage plants adapting to severe abiotic/biotic stresses; (5) the newly developed techniques that accelerates understanding of stress responses.

Guest Editors

Wanping Fang, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Liang Chen, Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

Submission Deadline

December 31, 2024. All papers will be published online after acceptance.

Submission Instructions

Please submit the full manuscript to Beverage Plant Research via our online submission system. Please choose the topic of this Special Issue when submitting and specify it in your cover letter. For further inquiries, please contact guest editors: 

Wanping Fang (fangwp@njau.edu.cn)
Liang Chen (liangchen@tricaas.com)