Modern Strategies for Sustainable Orchard Crop Management: Enhancing Yield, Fruit Quality and Disease Resistance
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural and Floricultural Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 97
Special Issue Editors
Interests: grapevine; almond; agrobiodiversity; clonal selection; intracultivar variability; must composition and fruit quality; water stress; soil management; canopy management
Interests: agrometeorology; climate change; fruit quality; Olea europea L.; plant physiology; phenology; soil management; tree crops
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the context of climate change and a continuously increasing global population, agriculture—and therefore fruit cultivation—is faced with new and important challenges.
The increasing occurrence of extreme meteorological events, heatwaves, and drought periods, make innovative agronomical practices aimed at improving plant resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses necessary. At the same time, modern agriculture has a key role in environmental protection. In this regard, several agronomical practices related to, for instance, soil management or the reuse of waste products as amendments and fertilizers have shown to improve soil fertility, environmental biodiversity, and plant health.
Agronomic management has a significant impact on perennial fruit crops, influencing physiological processes, the frequency of diseases and pests, yield, and the qualitative composition of the derived products. The choice of sustainable practices substantially affects orchard outcomes in terms of production and quality itself. Therefore, it is essential to improve our knowledge about the effects of such practices.
The aim of the present Special Issue is to collate studies that evaluate the suitability of applying environmentally sustainable agronomical practices in orchard crops in terms of production yield and fruit quality. We invite work on the following topics: soil management, irrigation, fertilization, pest control, training systems, harvesting techniques, and varietal selection.
Dr. Luca Mercenaro
Dr. Pierfrancesco Deiana
Dr. Mario Santona
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soil management
- irrigation
- fertilization
- pest control
- training systems
- harvesting techniques
- varietal selection
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