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Agricultural Citizen Science and Sustainable Regional Development—Second Edition

edited by

Florentina-Cristina Merciu

and

Camelia Teodorescu

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 182 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable rural development; community engagement; capacity building; innovative strategies; agricultural economics; agricultural policies; agricultural planning; food security; climate impacts; environmental impacts; rural extension

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management)

Economic Pathways and Consumer Dynamics in Sustainable Controlled-Environment Agriculture (CEA)

edited by

Simone Valle De Souza

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 122 | Submission Open

Keywords: controlled-environment agriculture; economic viability; supply chain resilience; economic modelling; sustainable CEA; circular economy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management)

Effects of Engineered Nanomaterials on Soil Health and Plant Growth

edited by

Fabián Fernández-Luqueño

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 89 | Submission Open

Keywords: biochemical metabolism; green or eco-friendly nanomaterial synthesis; food production; carbon sequestration; crop protection; affordable and healthy food; omics technologies; land or soil conservation; agronanotechnology; biotechnological crop production

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Soils)

Migration and Diffusion of Heavy Metals and Metalloids in Agri-Soil Systems

edited by

Zhiming Zhang

Rupali Datta

and Chenxi Zhai

submission deadline 5 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2678 | Submission Open

Keywords: heavy metals; metalloids; agricultural soil; migration; diffusion; transformation; sources and distribution; risk assessment; remediation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Soils)

Single Leaf Area Models and Leaf Area Index in Agriculture and Its Related Ecosystems

edited by Kohei Koyama

submission deadline 5 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2344 | Submission Open

Keywords: leaf area; leaf area index; image analysis; remote sensing; Montgomery equation; leaf length-times-width equation; foliage length-times-width equation; mathematical modeling; remote sensing; allometry

(This special issue belongs to the Section Digital Agriculture)

Soil Health and Microbiomes: A One Health Approach to Sustainable Crop Productivity and Ecosystem Resilience

edited by Andrea Visca, Manuela Costanzo and

Luciana Di Gregorio

submission deadline 5 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 160 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable agriculture; soil microbiome; plant– microbe interactions; ecosystem resilience; agroecosystem functionality; climate change mitigation; one health

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Soils)

Research on Cropping Technologies for Achieving High-Yield and High-Quality Wheat

edited by

Jianguo Man

submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 449 | Submission Open

Keywords: wheat; high yield and high quality; cropping technologies; quality formation mechanisms; nutrient utilization; climate change adaptation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Production)

Application of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Permanent Crops

edited by Jurij Rakun and

Péter Bodor-Pesti

submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 175 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision farming; robotics; artificial intelligence (AI); information and communication technologies (ICT); autonomous systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Technology)

The Adsorption and Degradation Pathways of Pollutants in Agricultural Soil

edited by

Paloma Campos

submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 124 | Submission Open

Keywords: removal of emerging pollutants; waste as soil ameliorant; sustainability; novel adsorbents; organic pollutants; soil amendments; heavy metals; adsorption kinetics; advanced treatment technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Soils)

Mathematical Modeling for Technological Processes of Agricultural Products

edited by Yanlong Han,

Yang Liu

and Anqi Li

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2603 | Submission Open

Keywords: processing of agricultural products; mathematical model; predictive model; parameter calibration; numerical simulation; mechanism analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Technology)

Soil Chemical Properties and Soil Conservation in Agriculture

edited by

Beata Kołodziej

and

Monika Skowrońska

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2143 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil chemistry; soil quality; soil protection; soil health; soil degradation; soil reclamation; soil contaminants; nutrient cycling; use and management of agricultural soils

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Soils)

Effects of Dietary Interventions on Monogastric Animal Production

edited by

Anna Milczarek

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1794 | Submission Open

Keywords: nutrients; feed; fed additives; nutrition; pigs; poultry; growth performance; slaughter value; meat quality

(This special issue belongs to the Section Farm Animal Production)

New Advances and Applications of Biofortification in Crop Production

edited by Donglin Huang, Hui Mao and Zhaohui Wang

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 440 | Submission Open

Keywords: hidden hunger; biofortified crops; Biofortification; Zn-enriched crops; Se-enriched crops; Fe-enriched crops

(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Production)

Integrated Approaches to Soil and Sediment Transport in Agricultural Landscapes

edited by

Bořivoj Šarapatka

and Miroslav Dumbrovský

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 84 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; landscape; protective measures; retention capacity; sediment transport; soil conservation; soil erosion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Soils)

Advanced Research of Secondary Metabolites in Medicinal and Industrial Plants

edited by

Ewa Majewska

and

Beata Drużyńska

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6479 | Submission Open

Keywords: secondary metabolites; medicinal and industrial plants; bioactive compounds; metabolomics; plant extracts; therapeutic potential; instrumental techniques

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Product Quality and Safety)

Abiotic Stress Responses in Horticultural Crops

edited by Xiaoyong Xu, Lijuan Jiang and Lun Wang

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4973 | Submission Open

Keywords: cold stress; low-temperature stress; high-temperature stress; drought stress; salt stress; heavy-metal stress; stress signaling; transcriptomics; metabolomics; proteomics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Production)

Genetics, Breeding and Transcriptomic Analysis of Chrysanthemum

edited by Lijie Zhou and

Aiping Song

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1270 | Submission Open

Keywords: flower color; development; flowering time; scents; disease resistance; environment interactions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Genetics, Genomics and Breeding)

Genetic Diversity, Adaptation and Evolution of Livestock

edited by

Maria Chiara Fabbri

and Marcos Paulo Gonçalves De Rezende

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 696 | Submission Open

Keywords: local breeds; genomics; genetic diversity; livestock management; adaptation; evolution; selection; multi-omics; breeding strategies; biodiversity; inbreeding

(This special issue belongs to the Section Farm Animal Production)

Precision Livestock Farming and Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Livestock Systems

edited by

Javier Plaza

and

Carlos Palacios Riocerezo

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 179 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision livestock farming; artificial intelligence; automatization; deep learning; machine learning; sensors; computer vision; sustainable livestock systems; animal welfare; animal behavior

(This special issue belongs to the Section Digital Agriculture)

The Use of Evolutionary Algorithms for Crop Planning

edited by

Marcus Randall

, James Montgomery and Andrew Lewis

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 106 | Submission Open

Keywords: evolutionary algorithms; mathematical modeling; multi-objective optimization; resource allocation; crop planning; precision agriculture

(This special issue belongs to the Section Digital Agriculture)

Heavy Metal Pollution and Remediation in Agricultural Soils

edited by Shiqiang Wei, Jing Song and Bo Song

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6854 | Submission Open

Keywords: heavy metals; soil remediation; crop safe production; source identification; pollution processes; transport; and transformation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Soils)

Current Challenges in Microbiology and Chemistry of Animal Feed

edited by

Marijana Sokolovic

and

Camelia Tulcan

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1759 | Submission Open

Keywords: microbiology; chemistry; mycology; toxicology; feed; microorganisms; mycotoxins; analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Farm Animal Production)

Agri-Environmental Risk Assessment and Management for Sustainable Rural Development

edited by Lei Zhang

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1449 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management)

The Impact of Nutrition on Poultry Meat and Egg Quality

edited by

Zlata Kralik

and

Ivona Djurkin Kušec

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1039 | Submission Open

Keywords: poultry; meat and egg quality; bioactive compounds; enhanced products; product stability and shelf-life; gene– nutrient interaction; consumer acceptance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Farm Animal Production)

Application of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Precision Beekeeping

edited by

Tomyslav Sledevič

Darius Plonis

and

Artūras Serackis

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 990 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision beekeeping; machine learning; artificial intelligence; hive monitoring; data analytics; bee health management; predictive modeling; automated systems; sustainable agriculture; pollination efficiency

(This special issue belongs to the Section Digital Agriculture)

Innovative Machinery for Climate-Smart Agriculture

edited by

Valentin Vlăduț

Iuliana Gǎgeanu

and

Mihai Gabriel Matache

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 535 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate-smart agriculture; advanced agricultural machinery; digital farming; sustainable farming practices; precision agriculture; agricultural technology; green farming practices; crop resilience; agricultural innovation; agri-tech advancements

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Technology)

Computers and IT Solutions for Agriculture and Their Application

edited by

Dimitre Dimitrov

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 252 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart solutions for agriculture; artificial intelligence; deep learning; machine learning; big data; internet of things; modeling; ecohydrology; biogeochemistry; plant and ecosystem productivity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Digital Agriculture)

Image Analysis Techniques in Quality Assessment of Agricultural Products

edited by

Maciej Zaborowicz

and

Jakub Frankowski

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 123 | Submission Open

Keywords: image analysis; Artificial Intelligence; quality assessment; agricultural products; digital technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Digital Agriculture)

Advancements in Reproductive Biotechnology and Nutritional Strategies in Livestock Production

edited by

Desislava Abadjieva

Filipp Georgijevič Savvulidi

and

Martin Ptáček

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 120 | Submission Open

Keywords: reproductive biotechnology; genetic improvement; livestock nutrition; livestock productivity; animal health

(This special issue belongs to the Section Farm Animal Production)

Feed Evaluation and Management for Ruminant Nutrition

edited by

Sameer J. Mabjeesh

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 103 | Submission Open

Keywords: feedstuffs; feed evaluation; feed management; precision feeding; ruminant nutrition; feed quality; NIRS; precision farming

(This special issue belongs to the Section Farm Animal Production)

The Impact of Environmental Factors and Pesticides on Bee Behavior

edited by Agnieszka Murawska

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 99 | Submission Open

Keywords: bee behavior; learning ability; cognitive skills; climate change; navigation skills; pesticides; flight performance; bumblebees; solitary bees; honeybee

(This special issue belongs to the Section Farm Animal Production)

Utilisation of Edible Insect Rearing Products and By-Products with a Sustainability and Circular Bio-Economy View

edited by

Simona Errico

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 74 | Submission Open

Keywords: edible insects; insect rearing; sustainability; food preferences; insect meals; alternative protein sources; animal feed; insect meal digestibility; waste; products and byproducts of insect rearing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Farm Animal Production)

Regenerative Livestock Systems: Enhancing Nutrient Density and Ecosystem Health Through Holistic Practices

edited by Gustavo Lascano

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 72 | Submission Open

Keywords: regenerative livestock; nutrient density; ecosystem; health; soil restoration; holistic/systems approach

(This special issue belongs to the Section Farm Animal Production)

Forage Breeding and Cultivation—2nd Edition

edited by

Ruicai Long

Xiao Li

and

Hao Sun

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 63 | Submission Open

Keywords: forage breeding; phenotype; genotype; genomic selection; domestication and improvement; fertilization; nutrient utilization; irrigation systems; biological yield

(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Production)

Economic Development of Rural Areas in Border Territories: Threats and Opportunities

edited by

Francisco Javier Castellano-Álvarez

Paulo Ferreira

Luís Carlos Loures

and

Rafael Robina-Ramírez

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 11292 | Submission Open

Keywords: rural development; agricultural development; endogenous rural development programs; heritage tourism; frontier tourism; rural tourism; demographic challenge; ageing; infrastructures and economic development

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management)

New Challenges and Trends in Agri-Environmental Management: Accomplishment of Sustainable Development Goals

edited by

Péter Tamás Nagy

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8130 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable nutrient management; agricultural pollution; circular economy; agricultural waste management; water-efficient innovations; recycling agricultural wastes and by-products

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecosystem, Environment and Climate Change in Agriculture)

Agricultural Biomass Generation and Utilization: Progress, Challenges and Prospects

edited by

Renjie Dong

and

Walter Stinner

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3247 | Submission Open

Keywords: agricultural biowastes; marginal land plants; assessment; treatment; and valorization; bioenergy; pellet; and briquette; biogas; gasification; pyrolysis; combustion; biochar; hydro-thermal conversion; power generation; compost; biogas digestates; acidification; biofertilizer; soil conditioner; value-added valorization; feed; insect protein; single-cell protein; soil quality; greenhouse gas; climate change; green development; sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Technology)

Advancements in Genotype Technology and Their Breeding Applications

edited by Ju-Kyung Yu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2511 | Submission Open

Keywords: genotyping; next-generation sequencing (NGS); molecular markers; genotyping by sequencing (GbS); marker-assisted breeding; genomics assisted breeding; genome-wide association studies; genomic selection; AI-based data analytics; phenomics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Genetics, Genomics and Breeding)

Sustainable Cutting-Edge Solutions for Pest Management

edited by

Francesco Nugnes

Francisco J. Beitia

and

Luca Rossini

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2156 | Submission Open

Keywords: biological control; natural enemies; entomology; plant health; predictive models; artificial intelligence; remote control; diagnostic methodology; sustainable IPM

(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Protection, Diseases, Pests and Weeds)

Crop Yield Improvement in Genetic and Biology Breeding

edited by

Zhiyong Li

and Jie Huang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1947 | Submission Open

Keywords: crops yield; gene cloning and function; genome editing; genetic improvements; genetic engineering; regulatory mechanisms; germplasm enhancement; molecular breeding

(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Genetics, Genomics and Breeding)

Sensory Properties Analysis for Quality Evaluation of Agricultural Product

edited by

Maria Teresa Frangipane

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 994 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensory analysis; quality; organoleptic characteristics; panel test; consumer preferences; product improvement; quantitative descriptive analysis (QDA); lexicon for sensory evaluation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Product Quality and Safety)

Computer Vision Analysis Applied to Farm Animals

edited by

Yang Zhao

and

Beibei Xu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 735 | Submission Open

Keywords: computer vision; image analysis; precision livestock farming; animal welfare; deep learning; behavior monitoring; health assessment; data fusion; imaging technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Digital Agriculture)

Optics and Image Analysis in Modern Agriculture: Transforming Practices and Unveiling Opportunities

edited by

Roberto Alves Braga Júnior

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 488 | Submission Open

Keywords: near-infrared (NIR); fluorescence spectroscopy; lidar (light detection and ranging); machine vision; thermal imaging; remote sensing; multispectral and hyperspectral imaging; 3D reconstruction; digital image processing and analysis; laser interferometric methods

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Technology)

Price and Trade Dynamics in Agricultural Commodity Markets

edited by Mariusz Hamulczuk,

Karolina Pawlak

and

Katarzyna Czech

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 284 | Submission Open

Keywords: commodity market; agri-food sector; agri-food prices; price forecasting; price volatility; futures markets; market integration; price transmission; price and trade modelling; impact assessment; international trade; trade policy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management)

Occurrence and Control Strategies of Agrophagous of Horticultural Crops

edited by

Małgorzata Tartanus

and

Eligio Malusà

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 169 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity management; biopesticides; decision supporting systems; monitoring techniques; pests; physical control methods; plant diseases; weeds control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Protection, Diseases, Pests and Weeds)

Advances in Sustainable Environmental Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering for Pollution Control in Different Agroecosystems

edited by

Marcela Levio-Raiman

and

Maria Cristina Diez

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 128 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental pollution; agroecosystems environmental biotechnology; bioprocess engineering; pollution control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecosystem, Environment and Climate Change in Agriculture)

Digital Transformation in Agriculture for Enhanced Food Security

edited by Shi Min

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 126 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital agriculture; precision farming; food security; big data; artificial intelligence; IoT; smart farming; agricultural supply chains; policy implications; socioeconomic impacts

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Product Quality and Safety)

Soil-Machine Systems and Its Related Digital Technologies Application

edited by

Ju-Seok Nam

and

Anjin Chang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 126 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital agriculture; artificial intelligence; deep learning; machine vision; soil-machine systems; biosystems engineering; precision agriculture; machine vision; smart farming; soil and crops

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Technology)

Biological Control of Plant Diseases by Beneficial Microbes

edited by Jorge Poveda

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 115 | Submission Open

Keywords: bioinoculants; endophytic fungus; epiphytic fungus; endophytic bacteria; epiphytic bacteria; Trichoderma; Bacillus; bacteriophages; microbiome; systemic resistance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Protection, Diseases, Pests and Weeds)

Application of Smart Technologies in Orchard Management

edited by

Alessandra Vinci

and