Physiological Networks Determining Plant Production Under Stress: Results of Genotype–Environment Interactions
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant-Crop Biology and Biochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 789
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Interests: plant production; flooding and water deficit; water use efficiency
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Dear Colleagues,
Production by a plant can be approached as an integrative, emergent phenotypic trait. That is to say, the plant’s production is a phenotypic trait that emerges from a complex network of morphophysiological traits at lower hierarchical levels. From this perspective, any variation in the genotype and/or environment has the potential to cause a variation in the production. With this background in mind, the study of plant production must be based on a systemic view of the multiple traits that vary according to genotype–environment interactions, which can be called the enviromics. A physiological trait-based environmics is urgently needed to help us understand how the genetic determinism of small-scale physiological mechanisms interacts in and with the environment, leading to plant production. This gives rise to some questions: What are the main physiological traits upon which plant production relies? How do adverse environmental conditions impact those traits? How can management be applied to reduce the negative impact of stress on the key physiological traits plant production relies on? This Special Issue is open for contributions aiming to explore such questions and expand our understanding of the physiological networks determining plant production and its reliance on genotype–environment interactions, especially considering the production of plants under stress.
Dr. João Paulo Barbosa
Dr. Paulo Eduardo Marchiori
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food gap
- enviromics
- phenotyping
- plant–environment interactions
- crop physiology
- climate change
- adverse environments
- resilience to stress
- morphophysiological traits and production
- phenotypic plasticity
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