Efficient Management of Water, Energy, Fertilizer, and Rhizosphere Microbiome for Facility Crops

Dear Colleagues,

Greenhouse vegetable cultivation is one of the most intensive agricultural production systems, playing an important part for stable, year-round vegetable supply. Compared with open field cultivation, a larger amount of fertilizer, water, and energy are invested to increase the yield of products. However, oversupply of water and fertilizer usually eteriorate crop rootzone medium and negatively affect vegetable quality and yield. Meanwhile, unreasonable use of energy increases the cost of production. All these management practices can alter the rhizosphere microbiome, which is critical for plant fitness. Efficient use of water, fertilizer, and energy resources is vital in terms of increasing production, profit, and competitiveness of facility agriculture.

This Special Issue welcomes original research and review articles that provide updated state-of-the-art of theory, methods, technologies in greenhouse management that can contribute to higher water nutrient and energy use efficiency, and environmentally sustainable production of facility crops.

Dr. Lichun Wang
Dr. Xingang Zhou
Guest Editors

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