Special Issues

Agronomy publishes Special Issues to create collections of papers on specific topics, with the aim of building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors, who are experts on the topic. The journal’s Editor-in-Chief and/or designated EBM will oversee Guest Editor appointments and Special Issue proposals, checking their content for relevance and ensuring the suitability of the material for the journal. The papers published in a Special Issue will be collected and displayed on a dedicated page of the journal’s website. For any inquiries related to a Special Issue, please contact the Editorial Office.

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The Effects of Irrigation and Fertilization Management on Cropping Systems
edited by and
submission deadline 20 Mar 2024 | 11 articles | Viewed by 9691 | Submission Open
Keywords: irrigation management; fertilization; cropping system; yield and quality; water productivity; nitrogen use efficiency; crop model
(This special issue belongs to the Section Innovative Cropping Systems)
Plant Genetic Resources and Biotechnology
edited by and Angelos Kyratzis
submission deadline 20 Mar 2024 | 10 articles | Viewed by 9175 | Submission Open
Keywords: Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms (AFLPs); cryopreservation; C-value; Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT) arrays; Flow Cytometry; Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS); genomic modification; germplasm collection; genebanks; Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs); Simple Sequence Repeats (SSRs)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Breeding and Genetics)
Applications of Genomics or Transcriptomics Approaches in Phytopathology submission deadline 20 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2238 | Submission Open
Keywords: pathogens; genomics; transcriptomics; plant– microbe interactions; genetics; next-generation; sequencing; diseases; breeding for disease resistance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Breeding and Genetics)
Cropping Systems and Agronomic Management Practices of Field Crops—2nd Edition submission deadline 22 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1796 | Submission Open
Keywords: agronomy; field crops; agrobiodiversity; fertilization; irrigation; weed management; soil management; crop quality; cover cropping; crop physiology; organic farming; climatic change; sustainability; ecosystem services
(This special issue belongs to the Section Innovative Cropping Systems)
AI, Sensors and Robotics for Smart Agriculture—2nd Edition submission deadline 25 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1748 | Submission Open
Keywords: panchromatic; multispectral; and hyperspectral approaches; field phenotyping and yield estimation; disease and stress detection; computer vision; robot sensing systems; Artificial Intelligence and machine learning; sensor fusion in agri-robotics; variable-rate applications; farm management information systems; remote sensing; ICT applications; agri-robotics navigation and awareness
(This special issue belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
Pest Control Technologies Applied in Peanut Production Systems submission deadline 25 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 148 | Submission Open
Keywords: integrated pest management; cultivars; breeding and genetics; pesticides; cropping systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pest and Disease Management)
Light Requirements of Agricultural Crops
edited by Jadwiga Treder and Anna Kapczyńska
submission deadline 25 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 127 | Submission Open
Keywords: supplemental lighting; light-emitting diodes; photoperiod; light spectra; DLI; light efficiency; horticultural production; yield quality; physiological light response; year-round cultivation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Horticultural and Floricultural Crops)
Agricultural Non-point Source Pollution Control: From Croplands Management to Water Quality Improvement
edited by
submission deadline 30 Mar 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4187 | Submission Open
Keywords: agricultural non-point pollution; water purification; N removal; nutrient reuse; ecological engineering
Rhizosphere Microorganisms—Volume II
edited by and Hui-Ling Liao
submission deadline 30 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1407 | Submission Open
Keywords: rhizosphere; microorganisms; interaction; promote; resistance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Plant Nutrition)
Plant Tolerance under Environmental Stress: Metabolites Perspective
edited by and Yaoyao Zhao
submission deadline 30 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 624 | Submission Open
Keywords: environmental stress; metabolites perspective; response mechanism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant-Crop Biology and Biochemistry)
Innovative and Sustainable Agronomic Configurations to Enhance Vegetable and Ornamental Crop Performances submission deadline 30 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 377 | Submission Open
Keywords: vegetable production; sustainable production protocols; stress tolerance strategies; cut flowers production; bedding plants; ornamental pot plants
(This special issue belongs to the Section Horticultural and Floricultural Crops)
Current Research on Hyperspectral and Multispectral Imaging and Their Applications in Precision Agriculture Ⅱ submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 12 articles | Viewed by 28585 | Submission Open
Keywords: hyperspectral imaging; multispectral remote sensing; crop monitoring and classification; growth monitoring; nutrient diagnosis; land cover/land use; field crops; dimensionality reduction; feature extraction; vegetation indices; sensitive features
(This special issue belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
Composting as a Key Driver for Sustainable Agricultural Scenarios—Volume II submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 11 articles | Viewed by 18984 | Submission Open
Keywords: compost quality; organic waste management; soil fertility; soil quality; C sequestration; organic fertilization; soilless substrates; agricultural soils; nutrient recovery; climate change mitigation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Biosystem and Biological Engineering)
Effects of Soil Fertility and Plant Growth Promoters on Growth, Yield, and Quality of Crops submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 15103 | Submission Open
Keywords: biostimulants; plant growth promoters; microorganisms; aminoacids; soil fertility; plant nutrition; crop quality; yield
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Plant Nutrition)
The Applications of Deep Learning in Smart Agriculture submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8705 | Submission Open
Keywords: smart farming; deep learning; precision agriculture; computer vision; natural language processing; machine learning; sensors; multi-modal information; farm machinery
(This special issue belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
Use of Humic Substances and Biostimulants for Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8606 | Submission Open
Keywords: humic substances; humic acids; bio-stimulants; agro-wastes; compost; hormone-like; molecular structure; mode of action; plant nutrition and metabolism; plant growth; abiotic and biotic stress; crop health; soil remediation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Plant Nutrition)
New Advances in Soybean Molecular Biology
edited by and Li Chen
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7922 | Submission Open
Keywords: soybean; gene; functional analysis; new germplasm; transgene; genome editing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Breeding and Genetics)
Agricultural Biomass for Bioenergy and Bioproducts submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 7593 | Submission Open
Keywords: agronomic management; bioenergy; biomass crops; bioproducts
(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Biosystem and Biological Engineering)
Effects of Agrotechnical Factors and Farming Systems on Soil Properties and Plant Productivity submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5886 | Submission Open
Keywords: farming system versus soil quality; crop rotation and agrotechnical factors versus soil quality; physical and chemical properties of soil; soil biological properties and enzymatic activity; soil contamination and soil pathogens; soil quality versus yield and quality of agricultural crops; soil condition monitoring and anthropopressure
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Plant Nutrition)
Sustainable Resource Management for Crop Production and Quality submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5452 | Submission Open
Keywords: crop yield and quality; organic amendment; resource use efficiency; conservative agriculture; plant biostimulants
(This special issue belongs to the Section Innovative Cropping Systems)
Advanced Technology for Climate Change Mitigation and Sustainable Management of the Agroecosystem submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5245 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; life cycle assessment; modelling approach; GHG emissions and mitigation; multifunctional cropping system; biodiversity assessment and conservation; precision farming; water treatment and reuse; circular economy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Plant Nutrition)
Effects of Soil Tillage and Fertilizer Management on Production of Cereal Crops
edited by Juan Han
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4788 | Submission Open
Keywords: conservation agriculture; soil tillage; fertilization mode; crop yield; agricultural product quality; resource utilization efficiency; soil fertility and health; soil nutrient supply and circulation; sustainability of soil fertilization; greenhouse gas emissions
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Plant Nutrition)
Safe and Efficient Utilization of Unconventional Water Resources in Agriculture
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4338 | Submission Open
Keywords: nutrients; salts; heavy metals; pathogens; emerging pollutants; greenhouse gas emissions; transport and transformation mechanism; regulation mechanism; irrigation regime and technology; agronomic control technologies; risk assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Use and Irrigation)
Smart Farming Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4297 | Submission Open
Keywords: smart farming technologies; precision agriculture; digitalization; sensors; Internet of Things; decision support systems; indicators; sustainable agriculture and agri-food value chains; sustainability assessment; sustainability impacts
(This special issue belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
In-Field Detection and Monitoring Technology in Precision Agriculture
edited by , and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4106 | Submission Open
Keywords: intelligent agriculture; image processing; spectral analysis; quantitative inversion; prediction; early warning; machine learning; feature fusion
(This special issue belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
Production of Dihaploids of Crop Plants through Androgenesis, Gynogenesis, Wide Crossing and Other Techniques submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4057 | Submission Open
Keywords: haploids; doubled haploids; dihaploids; crop plants; androgenesis; gynogenesis; wide crossing; chromosome elimination; CENH3-modified lines
(This special issue belongs to the Section Horticultural and Floricultural Crops)
Molecular Genetics, Genomics and Breeding for Improved Fruit Quality and Biotic Stress Resistance submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3859 | Submission Open
Keywords: fruit nutritional and antinutritional factors; fruit sensory quality; fruit post-harvest behavior; plant diseases; insects; biodiversity; biotechnology; genomics-assisted breeding; genome editing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Horticultural and Floricultural Crops)
Innovative Hydrothermal Systems to Valorize Agricultural Residuals for Sustainable Crop Production and Environmental System
edited by , Nicole Berge, , and Judy Ann Libra
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3256 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydrothermal carbonization; carbon sequestration; environmental pollution; sustainable agriculture; greenhouse gas emission; water quality; recycling biomass; carbon-based materials
Effects of Spectrum and Light Intensity on Plant Growth Metabolism
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2987 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial light technology; light intensity; light spectrum; plant growth and metabolism; molecular mechanisms; sustainability and quality of plant production
(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant-Crop Biology and Biochemistry)
Selected Papers from the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Agronomy (IECAG 2023) submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2907 | Submission Open
Keywords: genetic erosion; rural engineering; grassland-based livestock farming; agricultural digitalisation; agrobiodiversity; post-harvest technology; quality breeding; plant growth promoters; service crops
(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant-Crop Biology and Biochemistry)
Advances in Wheat Molecular Genetics and Genomics
edited by Quan Xie, Jian Ma and Shisheng Chen
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2700 | Submission Open
Keywords: wheat; genetics; genomics; grain yield; end-use quality; plant architecture; stress resistance; germplasm; genome sequencing; molecular breeding
(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Breeding and Genetics)
Nematode Diseases and Their Management in Crop Plants submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2614 | Submission Open
Keywords: crop production; crop protection; integrated pest management; nematode diseases; pest control; plant-parasitic nematodes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pest and Disease Management)
Ecophysiological Mechanism and Simulation Model of Plant Phenology in Response to Climatic Change
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2110 | Submission Open
Keywords: plant phenology; phenological change; climatic factors; influencing mechanism; simulation model
(This special issue belongs to the Section Innovative Cropping Systems)
New Approach of High-Quality Agricultural Development in the Saline-Alkali Land
edited by Zhu Ouyang and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2060 | Submission Open
Keywords: comprehensive utilization of saline-alkali land; soil carbon and nitrogen processes in saline-alkali soil; the dynamic process of soil water and salt in saline-alkali soil; interaction of plant-soil-microbe in saline-alkali land; construction of ecological grass-husbandry ecosystem
(This special issue belongs to the Section Farming Sustainability)
Crop Models for Agricultural Yield Prediction under Climate Change
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1829 | Submission Open
Keywords: agronomy; crop growth models; phenology; crop yield; climate change; prediction model; high throughput phenotyping; crop warning model
(This special issue belongs to the Section Agroecology Innovation: Achieving System Resilience)
Study of Targeted Genome Editing for Crop Improvement
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1801 | Submission Open
Keywords: genome editing; crop improvement; CRISPR/Cas; base editor; prime editor; yield; abiotic stress; nutrition; disease resistance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Breeding and Genetics)
Nitrogen Cycle in Farming Systems—2nd Edition submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1545 | Submission Open
Keywords: farm; field; crop plants; cropping sequence; N requirements; N sources; N uptake; N balance; N recycling; N losses
(This special issue belongs to the Section Agroecology Innovation: Achieving System Resilience)
Plant–Water Relationships for Sustainable Agriculture
edited by and Angelos A. Patakas
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1063 | Submission Open
Keywords: plant– water relationships; sustainable agriculture; smart agriculture; precision agriculture; plant ecophysiology; plant stress physiology; abiotic stress; plant water status; irrigation management; plant adaptation; Internet of Things (IoT)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Use and Irrigation)
Assessment and Mapping of Soil Water Balance
edited by and Tiago Brito Ramos
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1054 | Submission Open
Keywords: crop water requirements; evapotranspiration; irrigation strategies; lysimeters; mechanistic and soil water balance models; multicriteria analysis; remote sensing; unmanned aerial vehicle; water productivity; water savings
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Use and Irrigation)
Research Progress and Application Prospect of Medicinal Plants—Volume II submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1039 | Submission Open
Keywords: medicinal plants; diseases; drugs; natural products; pharmacological activity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Horticultural and Floricultural Crops)
Nutrient Cycling and Environmental Effects on Farmland Ecosystems
edited by Wenxu Dong and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 976 | Submission Open
Keywords: nutrient cycling; farmland ecosystems; soil health; NH3 emission; greenhouse gases emission; nitrite leaching; water pollution
(This special issue belongs to the Section Agroecology Innovation: Achieving System Resilience)
Molecular Mechanism of Quality Formation in Rice
edited by Yulong Ren and Hui Dong
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 688 | Submission Open
Keywords: rice quality; milling quality; appearance quality; eating and cooking quality; nutritional quality; safety quality; map-based cloning; multi-omics genes; regulatory network; molecular mechanism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Breeding and Genetics)
The Role of Forage and Grasslands in Ruminant Nutrition and Sustainable Development submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 404 | Submission Open
Keywords: grass– livestock interaction; sustainable development; ruminants’ nutrition; forage (dried; silage and fresh)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Grassland and Pasture Science)
The Effect of Biofertilizer on the Growth, Yield, and Quality of Crops
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 381 | Submission Open
Keywords: biofertilizer; nanofertilizers; nutrients availability; soil health restoration; crop growth; yield performance; effective microorganism; organic fertilizer; sustainable agriculture; climate change; agricultural by-products
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Plant Nutrition)
Experimental and Molecular Epidemiology of Phytoplasma Diseases and Diversity of Insect Vectors submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 255 | Submission Open
Keywords: phytoplasma; epidemiology; multilocus genotyping; insect vectors; disease emergence; outbreaks; vectors diversity; vector role
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pest and Disease Management)
Omics Approaches for Crop Improvement—Volume II submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 148 | Submission Open
Keywords: crop improvement; genomics; transcriptomics; proteomics; metabolomics; metagenomics; metatranscriptomics; nutrigenomics; ionomics; lipidomics; phenomics; environmental omics; bioinformatics; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Breeding and Genetics)
Improving the Energy Utilization Efficiency and Production of Cropping Systems
edited by Kun Han
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 96 | Submission Open
Keywords: energy use; efficiency energy; efficiency cropping systems; carbon footprint; crop yield; input– output ratio; agricultural production; photosynthetic efficiency
(This special issue belongs to the Section Innovative Cropping Systems)
Advances in Data, Models, and Their Applications in Agriculture
edited by Toni Kazic and Addie M. Thompson
submission deadline 1 Apr 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2866 | Submission Open
Keywords: field phenomics; crop modelling; phenotypic prediction; high throughput phenotyping; data collection and validation; annotation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
Effect of Fertilization on Soil Quality
edited by Shicheng Zhao
submission deadline 10 Apr 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2815 | Submission Open
Keywords: microbial diversity; soil organic carbon sequestration; heavy metal; nutrient accumulation microplastics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Farming Sustainability)
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