Effects of Salt Stress on Crop Production—2nd Edition
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2026 | Viewed by 1307
Special Issue Editor
2. College for Overseas Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China.
Interests: salt stress; morphology; physiology; mechanism; molecular biology; cereal and cash crops; energy crops; carbon fixation and neutralization
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Dear Colleagues,
Soil salinization is one of the major abiotic stresses limiting crop production worldwide. Under salt stress, crop plants cannot develop a reasonable root system to effectively absorb water and nutrients from the soils, causing damage to cells, organs, and tissues as well as slow metabolism and growth inhibition, leading to reduced crop yields and quality. Under severe salt-stress conditions, crop plants cannot achieve a good establishment and reasonable productivity. A deeper and more comprehensive understanding of how crops respond to salt stress and the underlying salt tolerance mechanisms is of crucial importance to breed salt-tolerant crop varieties and develop salt-tolerant production practices.
This Special Issue is a natural continuation of the previous Special Issue: “Effects of Salt Stress on Crop Production”. This Special Issue focuses on the breeding strategies and techniques of salt-tolerant varieties, the management of salt-tolerant production practices, and their effects and mechanisms on the morphology, physiology, and yield performance of crops under salt-stress conditions. For this Special Issue, original research manuscripts, short communications, and reviews are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Guisheng Zhou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- salt stress
- breeding of salt-tolerant varieties
- morphology and physiology
- plant hormones
- nutrients absorption and utilization
- foreign amendment
- growth and development
- yield
- quality
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