Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Agronomy (IECAG2021)
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 March 2022) | Viewed by 24591
Special Issue Editor
Interests: greenhouse crops; vegetables production; hydroponics and aquaponics; plant nutrition; microgreens; sprouts; edible flowers; functional foods; grafting; microbial and non-microbial biostimulants; biofortification; vegetable quality related to preharvest factors; LED; urban agriculture; organic farming
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Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Welcome to the 1st International Electronic Conference in Agronomy: A Global Perspective on 21st Century Agronomy: Research Opportunities and Challenges Ahead (https://sciforum.net/conference/IECAG2021), to be held from 3-17 May 2021. We are looking forward to seeing you at our event. The Special Issue will publish selected papers from the Proceedings volume associated with our event on sciforum.net, an online platform for hosting scholarly e-conferences and discussion groups.
Through 1st Electronic Conference in Agronomy, we aim to promote and advance the exciting and rapidly changing field of agronomy. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- S1. Crop Breeding and Genetics
- S2. Soil and Nutrition section
- S3. Horticultural and Floricultural Crops
- S4. Grassland and Pasture Science
- S5. Weed Science and Weed Management
- S6. Farming Sustainability
- S7. Precision and Digital Agriculture
Prof. Dr. Youssef Rouphael
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- food quality and safety
- post-harvest technology
- environmental impact on agriculture
- renewable agricultural resources' reutilization
- biofortification
- biostimulants
- vegetable grafting
- plant stress
- circular economy
- hydroponics
- sustainable agriculture
- plant genomics
- biochar
- nitrogen management
- food and agribusiness supply chains
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