Effect of Fertilizer on Crop Tolerance to Drought and Salinity
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Plant Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soil salinity; ecophysiology; abiotic stress; drought; soil moisture; water potential; leaf gas exchange
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: water management; precision irrigation; hydroponic crops; brackish waters; recycled water; physiology of water and saline stress; gas exchange; photosynthetic pigments and photochemical efficiency; water relations
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
This Special Issue welcomes the submission of articles that deal with studies on the management of fertilizers and bio-inputs in mitigating water and saline stress, notably with a bias of interest for applied research. The Special Issue will accept theoretical papers describing new methodologies or empirical applications, case studies, and experimental results that are related to the management of fertilizers, bio-inputs, and other stress attenuators. In particular, we welcome studies that consider biochemical, physiological, productive, and economic aspects of crops.
We invite researchers to submit manuscripts that enable us to advance our understanding of mitigating water and saline stress, as well as those concerning the use of fertilizers, bioinputs, and other compounds. The scope of this Special Issue covers aspects of their biochemistry, physiology, and management, in addition to their impacts on the area of economic viability.
Guest Editors
Prof. Dr. Edivan Rodrigues de Souza
Prof. Dr. José Amilton Santos Júnior
Prof. Dr. Edivan Rodrigues De Souza
Prof. Dr. José Amilton Santos Júnior
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- salt-affected soil
- ecophysiology
- abiotic stress
- semiarid
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