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Plants’ Response to Abiotic Stress
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Plants’ Response to Abiotic Stress

A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Production".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2024) | Viewed by 3928

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Valeria Toscano

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National Research Council—Institute for Agricultural and Forest Systems in the Mediterranean (CNR-ISAFOM), S.S. di Catania, 58, Empedocle Street, 95128 Catania, Italy
Interests: stress; antioxidant activity; secondary metabolites; food quality; agronomic practices; phytoremediation
Dr. Filippo Ferlito

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Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Olive, Fruit and Citrus Crops, Corso Savoia 190, 95024 Acireale, Italy
Interests: physiology; agroecology; stress; soil; vines; fruit tree crops; yield trait
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Dr. Amenta Margherita

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Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forests, CREA, Rome, Italy
Interests: bioactive compounds; polyphenols; vegetable extracts; food byproducts; nutraceutical activity; innovative extraction techniques
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Special Issue Information

Dear Collegue,

Abiotic stresses, that characterize many world marginal areas of the world, have increased due to climate change and anthropogenic activities. Drought, heat, cold, and excess of salt or toxic metals in the soil affect the geographical distribution of plants in nature, limit plant productivity in agriculture, and threaten food security. As a response to these stresses, the plants have developed several strategies of adaptations involving morphological, physiological and biochemical processes.

It is already known that one of the main defense mechanisms implemented by plants is to increase their antioxidant activity and the synthesis of biologically active compounds. This allow them to adapt to unfavorable or stressful climatic conditions due to climate change and produce fruits and vegetables with a higher nutraceutical value and health benefit properties.

This Special Issue aims to highlight all the impactful researches on plants response to different abiotic stresses and their influence on the biosynthesis of antioxidants compounds, focusing on the possibility of using abiotic stresses as hormesis promoters to select the most suitable genotypes to resist to adverse environmental conditions and to produce fruits and vegetables with a high nutraceutical value also in a climate change scenario. This Special Issue will include interdisciplinary studies embracing agriculture, biology, chemistry and ecology. All types of articles, including original research and reviews, are welcome.

Dr. Valeria Toscano
Dr. Filippo Ferlito
Dr. Amenta Margherita
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Keywords

  • abiotic factors
  • stress
  • antioxidant activity
  • climate change
  • bioactive compounds
  • plant hormesis
  • nutraceutical value

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Water Deficit Duration Affects Potato Plant Growth, Yield and Tuber Quality
by Sheng Li, Yulia Kupriyanovich, Cameron Wagg, Fangzhou Zheng and Sheldon Hann
Agriculture 2023, 13(10), 2007; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13102007 - 16 Oct 2023
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In humid climate regions, a short period of water deficit, especially during the vegetative growth and tuberization stages, has been found to affect potato plant growth, yield and tuber quality. However, there is still a lack of information on the impact of the [...] Read more.
In humid climate regions, a short period of water deficit, especially during the vegetative growth and tuberization stages, has been found to affect potato plant growth, yield and tuber quality. However, there is still a lack of information on the impact of the water deficit duration. In this study, we examined potato plant growth, yield and tuber quality parameters with plants under 0 to 25 days of water deficit initiated at the beginnings of the vegetative growth stage and the tuberization stage, respectively. We found that for both the vegetative growth and tuberization stages, a longer water deficit duration resulted in no significant change in final plant height but significantly delayed flowering and reduced total biomass, yield, tuber dry matter content and share of large tubers. We estimate that per day of prolonged water deficit, there will be a yield loss of 3.1% and 3.4% for the vegetative growth and tuberization stages, respectively. Similarly, for per liter of irrigation water, there will be a yield increase of 16.3 g and 19.1 g for the vegetative growth and tuberization stages, respectively. Further studies are suggested to examine how supplemental irrigation can be used most effectively to mitigate the impact of water deficit on potato production in humid climate regions. Full article
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