Focus Issue: Hypoxia and Plants

The January 2025 issue of Plant Physiology has a focus on “Hypoxia and Plants”. This field has made a lot of progress recently in understanding plant responses to low oxygen, from the molecular to physiological and developmental levels. The focus issue includes reviews on topics such as divergent responses of rice to flooding, how cells perceive and respond to hypoxia, its effects on seeds, tools and synthetic biology approaches to investigate hypoxia, and a very interesting story of the ecology of hypoxia, looking at genetic adaptations in high-altitude plants. The issue also includes research articles on hydraulic and transcriptional responses to water-logging and hypoxia. The editors of the focus issue have invited four speakers whose work appears in the focus issue to speak in a webinar, scheduled for January 28, see https://blog.aspb.org/january-28-plant-physiology-webinar-hypoxia-and-plants/. (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bksy.social @PlantTeaching)  Plant Physiol. https://academic.oup.com/plphys/issue#2085436-7695743