Plant–Soil Interactions Under Global Change
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 29
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant–soil interaction; soil microbes; soil health; mycorrhizal functionality
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Good plant–soil interactions are important in supporting food security and ecosystem stability, but due to global change and intensified human activities, plant–soil interactions are increasingly being challenged and threatened. It is vital that we elucidate the influencing factors in plant–soil interactions and adaptation mechanisms to environmental change, to enable the sustainable development of agroecosystems and natural ecosystems in the context of global change.
With the development of molecular biology techniques, it is particularly important to reveal the regulatory mechanisms behind plant–soil interactions in agroecosystems and natural ecosystems to adapt to global change.
This Special Issue will focus on the mechanisms behind plant–soil interactions and their adaptations to global change, including, but not limited to, plant–soil interactions and soil health, plant–soil interactions and ecosystem stability, and plant–soil interactions and biodiversity.
Dr. Tao Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant–soil interactions
- biodiversity
- ecosystem
- agroecosystem
- natural ecosystem
- sustainable development
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