Plant Nutrition
A section of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747).
Section Information
The “Plant Nutrition” Section of the journal Plants publishes original research and timely review articles on all aspects related to plant nutrition, an interdisciplinary field in the area of the plant sciences and nutritional sciences.
From a plant standpoint, plants, as other organisms, require essential and non-essential nutrients in abundance for proper growth and development. The progresses of nutrition uptake, transport, metabolism and accumulation must be subtly controlled and regulated to avoid deficiency and toxicity and to achieve an exquisite equilibrium. On the other hand, plants make substantial food sources for human and animals. Starch, proteins, fats, fiber and other phytochemicals and metabolites from plants constitute an important source of human dietary nutrients directly (as food) or indirectly (as feedstuff or substrate for fermentation).
The Section aims to increase our knowledge on all areas associated with all aspects of nutritional sciences of plants (and other photoautotrophs, including lichens, algae and cyanobacteria). The “Plant Nutrition” Section welcomes basic and applied research manuscripts on topics including but not limited to:
- Nutrient uptake, metabolism, accumulation and storage;
- Impact of micro- and macronutrients on plant growth, yield, resistance;
- Nutrient homeostasis;
- Nutrient deficiency and toxicity;
- Plant adaptation and acclimation to nutrition shortage or excess;
- CO2;
- Nitrogen and nitrogen fixation;
- Phosphorous;
- Mineral nutrition (potassium, sulfur, magnesium, calcium, iron, zinc, silicon, boron, molybdenum, nickel, etc.);
- Nutrient cycling;
- Nutrient exchange and mycorrhizal symbiosis;
- Metabolic fluxes of nutrients;
- Re-localization of nutrients in plant tissues;
- Physiological, metabolic, and transcriptomic view of plant nutrition;
- Crop fertilization and overfertilization;
- Crop quality;
- Nutrition of plants in protected cultivation;
- Greenhouse, soilless culture artificial light and hydroponics;
- Plant metabolism and metabolites;
- Foods of plant sources;
- Bioavailability of plant nutrients;
- Novel plant food sources;
- Phytonutrients for human health;
- Plant foods for human and animal health;
Accordingly, the “Plant Nutrition” Section is interested in articles; reviews; perspectives; communications; opinions; proceedings; commentaries, etc. All submitted manuscripts will be subject to a thorough peer-reviewing process.
Editorial Board
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Plant Secondary Metabolism in Plant Foods (Deadline: 28 February 2023)
- Transcriptomic and Proteomic Response of Plants to Nutritional Deficiency (Deadline: 20 March 2023)
- Plant-Based Technologies for Environmental Reclamation in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas: From Theory to Practice (Deadline: 30 March 2023)
- Advances in Biochar Applications for Agricultural and Forest Ecosystems (Deadline: 31 March 2023)
- Light and Plant Nutrition (Deadline: 31 March 2023)
- Biochemical Interactions of Iron Nutrition in Plants (Deadline: 31 March 2023)
- Diversity and Functions of Beneficial Rhizosphere Microbes on Crop Nutrition and Eco-Toxicity (Deadline: 20 April 2023)
- Molecular Insight into Phosphorus Nutrition in Plants (Deadline: 31 May 2023)
- Cereals: Aspects of Quality, Health, Technology, and Innovation (Deadline: 20 June 2023)
- Plant Surfaces: Physico-Chemical Properties, Interaction with Deposited Matter and Permeability (Deadline: 30 June 2023)
- Quality Evaluation and Functional Food Development of Cereals, Pseudocereals and Pulse Products, Volume II (Deadline: 30 June 2023)
- Physiological Changes in Plants Species Submitted to High Levels of Micro and Macronutrients (Deadline: 15 July 2023)
- Analysis of Genes Related to Crop Yield and Nutrient Use Efficiency (Deadline: 20 July 2023)
- Agricultural Water and Fertilizer Management for Crop Production (Deadline: 30 July 2023)
- Plant Nutrition Volume II (Deadline: 30 July 2023)
- Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Influences on Plant Growth Regulation (Deadline: 31 July 2023)
- Role of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria in Fertilization Application: At the Soil-Plant Level (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Nutrient Signaling Networks in Plants (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
Topical Collections
Following topical collections within this section are currently open for submissions: