Integrated Strategies for Enhancing Lodging Resistance and Yield Performance in Cereal Crops

Dear Colleagues,

The conflict between preventing cereal lodging and obtaining high yields is a prevailing challenge that besets modern agriculture. Lodging directly induces yield losses, reduces the quality of grains and hinders mechanized harvesting. With the growing use of high-yield varieties, higher planting densities and increased application of fertilizer, the risk of lodging has become greater. Furthermore, due to the intensification of climate change, extreme weather conditions such as strong winds and rainfall occur more frequently, further impacting the efficacy of high-yield cultivation models. This Special Issue of Agronomy, “Integrated Strategies for Enhancing Lodging Resistance and Yield Performance in Cereal Crops”, seeks to address these issues.

We aim to highlight integrated, sustainable approaches that bridge crop physiology, genetics, agronomy practice, and precision technologies to establish efficient, lodging-resistant cultivation technology that can be used to acquire high yields.

We encourage to contribute studies on high yield and lodging traits, including ideal plant architecture, optimized agronomic practices (e.g., fertilization, irrigation, growth regulators), and advanced tools like sensor-based monitoring or AI-driven modelling.

Dr. Guangyan Li
Dr. Peng Yan
Dr. Yaliang Wang
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Agronomy is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.