Advanced Research in Crops: From Physiology to Breeding
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 23
Special Issue Editors
Interests: rice; nutrient utilization; abiotic stress response; gene cloning; molecular mechanism; regulatory network
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Interests: adaptation to stress; drought, salinity and heavy metal stresses; metabolism of abscisic acid, ureides and amino acids
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Food crops and industrial crops are an important part of agriculture and are of great significance to the agricultural economy and rural development. Biotic stress factors (viruses, bacteria, fungi, insects, weeds, etc.) and abiotic stress factors (drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, shortage of macro- or micronutrients, heavy metals, and other pollutants, etc.) lead to changes in the morphology (plant height, root length, leaf color, leaf structure, etc.), physiology (osmotic pressure, transpiration rate, photosynthesis, oxygen balance, etc.), biochemistry (metabolism of proteins, carbohydrates, and other biomolecules), and molecular mechanisms (gene expression, signaling pathways, DNA and RNA modifications, etc.) of crops during growth, ultimately reducing yield and quality. The yield and quality of crops are not only significantly influenced by the growing environment, but are also closely related to their varieties and cultivation measures. Therefore, how to maintain the yield and quality of crops under unfavorable growing conditions is an important research topic.
Based on this, this Special Issue focuses on whole chain factors affecting crop yield and quality, including varieties, stresses, and cultivation measures and analyzes the phenotypic, physiological, and biochemical processes and genetic regulatory pathways of crop response to stress, with particular interest in, but not limited to, the following topics: (1) analysis of the physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms of single or combined stresses and cultivation measures affecting crop growth, yield, and quality; (2) excavating high-quality genetic resources of various crops (3) the application of molecular biology in breeding.
Dr. Guang Chen
Dr. Edyta Zdunek-Zastocka
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- crops
- stress
- cultivation measures
- molecular mechanisms
- breeding
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