Crop Responses and Adaptations to Environmental Stresses: New Insights and Approaches
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Genetics, Genomics and Breeding".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 November 2025 | Viewed by 413
Special Issue Editor
Interests: stress tolerance; crop sciences; abiotic stress; molecular biology; plant biotechnology; bioinformatics; metagenomics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, climate change and environmental degradation have intensified the frequency and severity of the abiotic and biotic stresses affecting crop systems worldwide. Understanding how crops respond and adapt to these environmental challenges is a central question in plant science and agricultural innovation. Historically, research has focused on individual stressors, but current efforts are shifting toward integrated approaches that consider complex and simultaneous stress interactions.
This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances in our understanding of the physiological, molecular, and genetic responses of crops to various environmental stresses—including drought, salinity, heat, cold, flooding, and pest pressures. Emphasis will be placed on interdisciplinary research that links fundamental mechanisms with applied strategies to improve crop resilience and productivity.
We invite contributions that explore novel insights into plant signaling pathways, stress-responsive gene networks, microbiome interactions, phenotyping technologies, and breeding or biotechnological approaches aimed at enhancing stress tolerance. Studies that include omics tools, systems biology, modeling, or field-based validations are particularly welcome.
Original research articles, reviews, and opinion pieces that provide a forward-looking perspective on the adaptation of crops to a changing environment will form the backbone of this Special Issue. Our goal is to provide a platform for cutting-edge research that bridges knowledge gaps and supports the development of sustainable and resilient agricultural systems.
Dr. Alvaro Lopez-Zaplana
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- abiotic stress
- biotic stress
- plant adaptation
- crop physiology
- molecular responses
- stress tolerance
- climate change
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