Plant response to high ambient temperature

With global warming, there is an urgent need to understand how plants adapt to high temperature. It has been estimated that the global crop yield will be dramatically decreased in the future if we cannot generate heat tolerant crop varieties. For highlighting new discoveries in the field of plant response to high temperature, we organize this timely Research Topic in the Frontiers in Plant Science. This Research Topic on Plant Response to High Ambient Temperature comprises 8 original research articles. Although mechanistic studies are mostly from research performed in Arabidopsis thaliana, this topic has a broad scope and therefore includes work across diverse plant species, including Begonia grandis, Brassica napus, Agrostis stolonifera and Triticum aestivum.