Olive Stress Alleviation Strategies
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Biotic and Abiotic Stress".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 16 October 2025 | Viewed by 1807
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Interests: crop protection; antimicrobial activity; phytochemicals; food science; environmental pollution
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Interests: pomology; abiotic stress; biostimulants; hydroponics; berries; plant responses; plant propagation; tissue culture
Interests: climate change; agricultural sustainability; circular economy; soil, water and biodiversity conservation; remote sensing; plant breeding; ecosystem services; olive growing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
“Olive Stress Alleviation Strategies” is a Special Issue that will contain a diverse collection of original manuscripts regarding the induction of olive trees’ coping mechanisms to stressful conditions. Stress conditions may arise due to abiotic factors when olives are exposed to drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, waterlogging, pollution, radiation and biotic factors, such as microorganisms and animals. The high spatial frequency of monumental olive tree spots in cultivation zones coupled with entrepreneurial olive orchards have revealed a special environmental co-evolutionary trend where stresses are—in the long term—manageable. In contrast, short periods of highly intense stress for olive orchards require human intervention and defined strategies in order to mitigate the damages caused to their growth, physiology and immunology while simultaneously sustaining fruit production.
To address all these issues, in-depth knowledge of restoring olives towards a non-challenged status is needed. Efficacy, efficiency and the discovery of background mechanisms in applied alleviation methods are essential to improve our understanding in this area and form solid protocol schemes.
Therefore, this Special Issue, titled “Olive Stress Alleviation Strategies”, welcomes manuscripts comprising basic and applied studies on the following topics:
- Mechanistic basis of abiotic and biotic stresses in olives;
- Efficiency and efficacy of alleviation stress strategies in olives;
- Exogenously and endogenously stress alleviation induced mechanisms;
- In silico optimization studies on olive alleviation stress strategies;
- Optimized regulation of minerals in olives for stress mitigation purposes;
- Novel and improved alleviation stress strategies for drought and saline conditions;
- Smart olive monitoring for real-time, dedicated alleviation schemes;
- Biotechnologically and genetically induced or modified strategies to alleviate olive stresses;
- Role of secondary plant metabolism on stress alleviation and stress factor intensity classification;
- Biochemical, physiological and immunological aspects of olive tree recovery from stress conditions;
- Applied alleviation stress practices in olives;
- Alleviation practices in multiple-type synchronous and asynchronous olive stress conditions;
- Contribution and plasticity of stress memories in olive trees;
- Pre-harvest and post-harvest alleviation schemes for stressed olive fruits.
Contributions from early-career researchers and interdisciplinary scientists as well as propositions for research topics will be welcomed.
Dr. Stefanos Leontopoulos
Dr. Helen Kalorizou
Dr. Georgios Koubouris
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- olive tree
- abiotic stresses
- biotic stresses
- sustainable yield
- stress responses
- alleviation stress mechanisms
- stress memory
- genetic manipulation
- applied stress recovery
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