Strategies of Producing Horticultural Crops Under Climate Change
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Biotic and Abiotic Stress".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2025 | Viewed by 1554
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant breeding; plant genetic resources; fruit nutritional quality; organoleptic quality; volatiles; organic breeding
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Dear Colleagues,
Climate change is among the most challenging risks that the planet is facing. Many issues of human activities are being affected by this environmental threat. Directly in the shape of global temperature rising, random or very damaging rain patterns, floodings, or indirectly like changes in the incident solar radiation, soil erosion, among others. In this regard, horticulture is affected by water scarcity for irrigation, a decrease in the quality of water and/or agricultural soils (salinization or toxic ions), crop development and growth, fruit setting and yield, fruit quality and physiopaties, and even the quality of processed foods as a consequence (e.g. wines, olive, and other oils). In this frame, the approaches to solve or mitigate these and other effects of climate change on crops can be very diverse.
Thus, this Special Issue, “Strategies of Producing Horticultural Crops under Climate Change”, is aimed at innovative studies working with a range of alternatives to fight against climate change and its effects on horticultural production. Works on soil and environmental solutions, biofertilizers or mycorrhization, seed management and solutions, irrigation techniques, crop rotation, mulching, plant-and-soil interactions, plant breeding, valorization of new crops, plant protection, recovery and application of useful ancestral techniques, just as examples, aimed at improving the growth, yield, and/or quality of horticultural crops, will be welcomed in this SI.
Prof. Dr. Adrián Rodríguez-Burruezo
Dr. Carla Guijarro-Real
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- horticultural crops
- climate change
- cultivation
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