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Sustainable Viticulture and Winemaking: Adapting to a Changing Climate

edited by Alejandro Martinez Moreno,

Diego Paladines-Quezada

Mario Cunha

and

Adamo Domenico Rombolà

submission deadline 10 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2186 | Submission Open

Keywords: viticulture; sustainability; adaptation; abiotic stress; climate change; stress tolerance; wine

(This special issue belongs to the Section Horticultural and Floricultural Crops)

Bioherbicides and Biostimulants from Allelochemicals Advances and Agricultural Applications

edited by

Sofiene Ben Kaab

Agnieszka Synowiec

and

Natividad Chaves Lobón

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 74 | Submission Open

Keywords: phytochemicals; allelochemical compounds; allelopathy; natural compounds; bioherbicides; biostimulants

(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant-Crop Biology and Biochemistry)

Sustainable Strategies for Enhancing Soil Health and Food Quality

edited by

Milena Petriccione

and

Samira Islas-Valdez

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 73 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil health; organic fertilizers; crop yield and fruit quality; nutrient cycling; food nutrient density; plant nutrition; regenerative agriculture

(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Plant Nutrition)

Genetics and Mechanisms of Disease Resistance in Crop

edited by Xuanjun Feng and

Yufang Xu

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 76 | Submission Open

Keywords: maize ear rot; maize southern rust; wheat stripe rust; rice blast disease; wheat fusarium head blight; Tomato gray mold; other diseases

(This special issue belongs to the Section Pest and Disease Management)

Pests, Pesticides, Pollinators and Sustainable Farming—2nd Edition

edited by Antonios E. Tsagkarakis, Georgios Papadoulis and Argyro Kalaitzaki

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 50 | Submission Open

Keywords: integrated pest management; biological control; precision plant protection; pollinators; remote sensing; biopesticides; sustainable pest management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Farming Sustainability)

Efficient Water and Nutrient Utilization of Crops Under Changed Environment

edited by

Zhenhua Wei

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 302 | Submission Open

Keywords: crop physiology; water use; nutrient uptake; soil health; environmental change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Plant Nutrition)

Precision Agriculture and Crop Models for Climate Change Adaptation

edited by

Katalin Somfalvi-Tóth

and Gábor Milics

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 136 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; precision agriculture; crop models; adaptation; soil conservation; data-based agriculture; phenology; crop yield

(This special issue belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)

Exploration of Aneuploidy and Polyploidy in the Evolution of Horticultural Crops and Crop Wild Relatives

edited by Saverio D’Emerico, Alessio Turco and

Robert Philipp Wagensommer

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 85 | Submission Open

Keywords: aneuploidy; classical and molecular genetics; crop wild relatives; epigenetics; evolution; genetic diversity; horticultural crops; polyploidy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Breeding and Genetics)

Robotics for Agricultural Production

edited by Sergio Bayano Tejero and

Rafael-Ruben Sola-Guirado

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 68 | Submission Open

Keywords: agricultural robotics; precision agriculture; autonomous operations; automated harvesting; multi-robot systems; autonomous navigation; resource optimisation; advanced perception

(This special issue belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)

Plant–Insect Interactions in the Agroecosystem

edited by Apostolos Kapranas and

Eleni I. Koutsogeorgiou

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 51 | Submission Open

Keywords: plant– insect interactions; herbivory; integrated pest management (IPM); plant defense responses; volatile organic compounds (VOCs); insect behavior; agroecology; multitrophic interactions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agroecology Innovation: Achieving System Resilience)

Metabolomics and Transcriptomics of Emerging Crop Diseases: Crop–Pathogen Interaction and Host Mechanisms

edited by

Violetta Katarzyna Macioszek

and

Andrzej K. Kononowicz

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 45 | Submission Open

Keywords: biotic stress; plant pathogens; defense response; signal transduction； metabolomics; transcriptomics; host– pathogen interactions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Pest and Disease Management)

The Role and Strategies of Biocontrol Microorganisms in Plant Health Management

edited by

Francisco Ruiz-Castilla

and

Rogelio Valadez Blanco

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 34 | Submission Open

Keywords: biocontrol microorganisms; plant health management; antagonistic interactions; microbial consortia; bioactive compounds; plant– microbe interactions; sustainable agriculture; postharvest disease control; beneficial fungi and bacteria

(This special issue belongs to the Section Pest and Disease Management)

Plant Physiological Responses in Agricultural Crops: From Molecular Mechanisms to Field Management

edited by

František Hnilička

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 9 | Submission Open

Keywords: plant physiology; stress tolerance; photosynthesis; omics technologies; high-throughput phenotyping; water-use efficiency; crop management; sustainable agriculture

(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant-Crop Biology and Biochemistry)

Enhancing Generalization in Agricultural AI: Bridging Data Gaps and Boosting Model Robustness

edited by

Jayme Garcia Arnal Barbedo

and Mulham Fawakherji

submission deadline 15 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 724 | Submission Open

Keywords: generalization in machine learning; precision agriculture; domain adaptation; transfer learning; data augmentation; synthetic data generation; multimodal data fusion; generative models (GANs; VAEs); large language models (LLMs); robustness and adaptability; crop monitoring and management; soil and water analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)

Selected Papers from the 5th International Electronic Conference on Agronomy (IECAG 2025)

edited by

Oscar Vicente

and

Diana-Maria Mircea

submission deadline 15 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 409 | Submission Open

Keywords: biostimulants; plant breeding; climate change; plant nutrition; biotic and abiotic stress; plant– microbe and plant– plant interactions; plant physiology; biochemistry and molecular biology; sustainable agriculture

Smart Agriculture for Crop Phenotyping

edited by Wenting Han and Liyuan Zhang

submission deadline 20 Oct 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2047 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; multi-scale phenotyping systems; prescription maps; site-specific crop management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)

Molecular Mechanisms of Nutrient Stress Responses in Crops: From Physiology to Epigenetics

edited by

Jinxiang Wang

submission deadline 20 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 34 | Submission Open

Keywords: nutrient stress; crop resilience; signal transduction; epigenetic regulation; molecular physiology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant-Crop Biology and Biochemistry)

Optimized Resource Management for Sustainable Agriculture: Linking Irrigation and Soil Fertility

edited by

Paula Paredes

and

Deepak Ghimire

submission deadline 30 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 79 | Submission Open

Keywords: water– nutrient interactions; soil nutrient dynamics; irrigation management; climate-resilient cropping systems; soil fertility

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Use and Irrigation)

Agroecological Transitions: Integrating Soil–Pesticide–Microbe Interactions for Sustainable System Transformation

edited by Romina Aylén Verdenelli and José Manuel Meriles

submission deadline 30 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 57 | Submission Open

Keywords: agroecological transitions; soil– pesticide interactions; soil microbial communities; plant– soil– microbe dynamics; biopesticides; sustainable agriculture; soil health indicators

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agroecology Innovation: Achieving System Resilience)

Endophytic Fungi and Beneficial Microbes for Sustainable Crop Resilience

edited by Yi Cheng and

Xiaofeng Su

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 619 | Submission Open

Keywords: endophytic fungi; beneficial microbes; sustainable crop resilience; stress tolerance; microbial symbiosis; soil health; omics technologies; biofertilizers; food security; agricultural sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Pest and Disease Management)

Forage Conservation and Utilization in Organic Farming Systems

edited by

Barbara Wróbel

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 346 | Submission Open

Keywords: forage management; forage nutritional quality; forage preservation; storage techniques; grasslands; DM losses; organic additives; production of forage for ensiling; silage microbiota

(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Plant Nutrition)

Micropropagation and Plant Biotechnology: Protection, Improvement, and Utilization of Valuable Agricultural Germplasm Resources

edited by Flavia Angela Maria Maggiolini,

Maria Francesca Cardone

and

Lucia Rosaria Forleo

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 63 | Submission Open

Keywords: micropropagation; plant biotechnology; germplasm conservation; somatic embryogenesis; molecular breeding; new genomic techniques (NGTs)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant-Crop Biology and Biochemistry)

New Theories and Technologies for Water-Saving Irrigation in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas

edited by Juan Manzano Juárez, Iban Balbastre-Peralta,

Carmen Virginia Palau

and César González-Pavón

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 55 | Submission Open

Keywords: efficient irrigation; precision technologies; arid regions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Use and Irrigation)

Phosphorus Dynamics: Towards Sustainable Phosphorus Nutrition

edited by Claudio H. M. Costa

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 51 | Submission Open

Keywords: phosphorus; dynamics; soil fertility; nutrient efficiency

(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Plant Nutrition)

Broadening the Genetic Base of Climate-Smart Pea

edited by

Carrie M. Dottey

and Giseli Valentini

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 41 | Submission Open

Keywords: pea; legume; genetic diversity; comparative genomics; association mapping; population genetics; breeding; prebreeding; germplasm improvement

(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Breeding and Genetics)

Development and Utilization of Maize Germplasm Resources

edited by

Chaofeng Li

and Xiupeng Mei

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 33 | Submission Open

Keywords: plant architecture; stress tolerance; nutrient use efficiency; lodging resistance; genetic diversity; yield trait

(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Breeding and Genetics)

Phytopathogen Dynamics and Crop Diseases: Advances in Diagnosis, Epidemiology, and Management

edited by

Ying-Hong Lin

and Yuh Tzean

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 8 | Submission Open

Keywords: phytopathogen dynamics; crop diseases; disease diagnosis; epidemiology; innovative management; pathogen evolution; digital technologies; plant resistance; climate-smart agriculture; sustainable crop protection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Pest and Disease Management)

Agricultural Monitoring and Yield Assessment Through Remote Sensing and GIS

edited by

Anna Jedrejek

and

Rafał Pudełko

submission deadline 10 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 97 | Submission Open

Keywords: RS monitoring; satellite imagery analysis; spatial analysis; vegetation indices; agricultural drought; GIS; land use change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)

Soil-Borne and Air-Borne Fungi in Crop Systems: Impacts, Interactions, and Management Strategies

edited by

Katia Gazzetti

and

Caterina Morcia

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 45 | Submission Open

Keywords: disease emergence; fungicide resistance emergence; crop performance; climate change; detection; mycotoxins; plant– pathogen interaction; biocontrol; disease management; genome

(This special issue belongs to the Section Pest and Disease Management)

Soil Phosphorus Availability and Utilization: Interfacial Reactions, Chemical–Microbial Processes and Agronomic Management

edited by

Dong-Xing Guan

and

Kai Ding

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 18 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil phosphorus; phosphorus availability; interfacial reactions; chemical– microbial processes; rhizosphere processes; phosphorus speciation; agronomic management; sustainable agriculture

(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Plant Nutrition)

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