Molecular Responses and Management Strategies to Crop Stress
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant-Crop Biology and Biochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2024) | Viewed by 2681
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant nutrition; plant stress physiology; phytohormone
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Human beings’ reliance on food is increasing with the increasing world population. Thus, we pay more attention to the yield and quality of crops. However, crops such as wheat, rice, maize, barley, potato, soybean, rape seed, and common bean have to cope with biotic and abiotic stresses under adverse conditions. It has been revealed that the yield of crops is decreased under stressful conditions to balance development, growth, and resistance to stresses. Hence, understanding and revealing the underlying mechanisms is of importance to meet the food needs and guarantee food safety at the physiological, biochemical, molecular, and genetic level. With the development of new tools such as CRISPR-cas9-based gene editing, single-cell sequencing, and omics, as well as genetics and molecular plant-biology-related research approaches, our knowledge about crops’ responses to stresses is accumulating.
In order to present the recent advances on molecular responses to and management strategies for crop stress and to stimulate fruitful discussions, the outstanding journal Agronomy (JCR, Q1) is organizing this Special Issue, which will focus on molecular responses to and management strategies for crop stress. Manuscripts related to crops’ responses to biotic and abiotic stresses at the molecular level and the management of strategies for crop stress are welcomed and encouraged for submission to the Special Issue, especially these manuscripts that report findings or advances on the employment of CRISPR-cas9 gene editing; RNAi; traditional transgenic techniques; and microbiome tools to improve the performance of wheat, rice, maize, tomato, soybean, or rape seed under abiotic stress conditions such as heat, cold, salinity, flooding, low oxygen, nutrient deficiency, low pH, heavy metals, and biotic stress conditions, for instance, pathogens and pests. In short, any manuscript worldwide related to the topic of the Special Issue is welcomed.
Dr. Jinxiang Wang
Dr. Huiling Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- crop
- abiotic stress
- biotic stress
- molecular responses
- mechanism
- management strategies
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