Prevention and Alleviation in Crop Stress Responses by Exogenous Substance Application
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 November 2025) | Viewed by 494
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Interests: antioxidant performance; micronutrients; plant nutrition; annual and fruit crop nutrition
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, climate change, characterized frequent and erratic climate events, has become a stress factor for sustainable crop production. To improve crop adaptation and responses against stress factors, preventing or alleviating these constraints by the exogenous application of substances has become an important agronomic tool for growers. These substances, such as biostimulants, phytohormones, growth regulators, amino acids, and osmoprotectants, have gained increased interest from growers, particularly from those who produce perennial crops; however, successful applications have been controversial experiences from an agronomical, physiological, biochemical, chemical, environmental, and molecular view. The introduction of these substances will complement agronomical crop management, requiring comprehensive studies focused on the management, application, quality, utilization, and collateral of plant abiotic and biotic stress responses, as well as their interaction with the environment. This Special Issue welcomes research on the alleviation of the crop stress response by the application of exogenous compounds, alongside exploring the challenge of improving the productivity of major crops under the climate change scenario, which will be the greatest challenge to agronomy in the future.
Dr. Cristian Merino-Gergichevich
Prof. Dr. Zlatko Svecnjak
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- abiotic stress
- agronomy
- antioxidant mechanism
- biostimulants
- biotic stress
- growth regulators
- sustainable crop production
- physiology
- phytohormones
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