This Collection focuses on recent advances in plant responses to environmental pollutants, including molecular, physiological, and systems‑level mechanisms of stress perception, tolerance, and adaptation, while highlighting ecological impacts and sustainable strategies for enhancing plant resilience and environmental remediation.

Sperm deliver structural and regulatory cues shaping fertilization and early development. In livestock, predicting fertility needs tools beyond basic semen traits. This collection seeks advances in semen diagnostics that link sperm biology, seminal components, and handling methods to reproductive outcomes.

This Collection explores how insects, spiders, and arachnids interact with microbial partners to shape nutrition, immunity, development, and behavior. It invites research on symbiont transmission, microbiome structure and function, and applied strategies in pest management, agriculture, and public health.

This Collection on embodied learning exploring how movement, perception, and physiology shape learning across theory, methods, and edtech.

This Collection welcomes original research on remote sensing applications in forestry.

This collection investigates how global disruptions—including conflict, policy shifts, and changing investment landscapes—are reshaping infectious disease and sexual health across Africa and the Global South. Bringing together interdisciplinary research, frontline reports, workforce and system analyses, historical perspectives, and community voices, it highlights rising risks, antimicrobial resistance, strained systems, and the implications for care, equity, policy, and harm reduction.

This Collection explores how advances in newborn screening, point-of-care diagnostics, and emerging precision therapeutics are transforming early detection, personalized treatment, and outcomes in neonatal care worldwide.

This Collection invites interdisciplinary research on how social determinants and health disparities shape healthcare expenditures among patients living with chronic diseases across diverse populations, care settings, and health systems.

Fertility outcomes are among the key life outcomes shaping individual lives and societies. Different disciplines have extensively studied them, yet important gaps in our knowledge remain, illustrated by the difficulties in anticipating future fertility and its unexpected changes.

This Collection will present original research addressing the potential treatment of cardiac and vascular disease through gene therapy.

This Collection invites original research that develop next-generation plasma sources, elucidate plasma chemistry and plasma–surface interactions, or demonstrate emerging applications in materials synthesis, energy conversion, environmental treatment, or plasma medicine. Studies addressing challenges in diagnostics, energy efficiency, scalability, and predictive modeling are particularly welcome.

This Collection explores ethnic and cultural disparities in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, addressing limitations of current diagnostic criteria derived largely from European-ancestry cohorts. Integrating basic, translational, and clinical research, it examines variation in ovarian morphology, hormonal profiles, metabolic risk, and diagnostic assessment across populations, with the goal of advancing equity-informed, precision approaches to PCOS diagnosis and care.

The objectives of the following collection are: . To study innovative microbiological biorefinery processes for biosurfactant production. . To investigate novel processes for biosurfactant purification. . To describe the potential industrial and environmental applications of biosurfactants.

This Collection focuses on the sources, regulation, and physiological roles of nitric oxide across photosynthetic organisms, from algae and cyanobacteria to higher plants. It brings together studies addressing NOS-like activities, alternative NO-generating pathways, and the integration of NO signaling with redox balance, oxidative stress, and nitrogen metabolism.

The microbiological techniques, involving culture-dependent and culture-independent techniques remain a way forward in the identification of novelty traits possessed by agriculturally important endophytic microbes. Some possess notable genes, which informed their ecological services ranging from plant growth promotion, biocontrol, bioremediation, stress tolerance and metabolisms.

By bringing together perspectives from supply chain management, marketing and conversational AI in digital platforms, and sustainability studies, the theme aims to generate actionable insights for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers navigating the future of digital commerce.

This collection focuses on the innovative integration of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)—conceptually rooted in the Satoyama Mace Initiative—with modern carbon market frameworks.

This Collection focuses on the design, synthesis, and modification of functional macromolecules with tailored physicochemical, thermal, mechanical, and transport properties. It welcomes studies on innovative polymer architectures, supramolecular systems, and biomass-derived macromolecules, together with applications in membranes, drug delivery, sensors, and other advanced functional materials.

This Collection invites research on tumor cell dormancy in breast cancer, including mechanisms of DTC survival, microenvironmental regulation, reactivation, and strategies to prevent metastatic relapse.

This Collection aims to highlight pioneering research at the intersection of wearable and embedded sensing technologies, perioperative analytics, and digital surgery.