Sustainable Crop Production Under Abiotic Stresses: Physiological Response and Cultivation Regulation for Yield Optimization
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Physiology and Crop Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2026 | Viewed by 5
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change and human activity are progressively increasing the frequency of abiotic stresses, such as drought, heat, cold, salinity, flooding, nutrient deficiencies, heavy metal stress, and ultraviolet radiation, presenting a major constraint for plant growth, physiological metabolism, and crop production. The ever-increasing population and decreasing fertile soil resources generate a constant threat to food security. Therefore, it is essential to exploit effective strategies to enhance plant growth and improve crop yield under stress environments to further sustainable agricultural development. Some cultivation regulations strategies can alleviate abiotic stress in crop production and improve crop yields, such, exogenous hormone application, bioactive substances, optimum nutrient and water management. A deeper understanding of how crop responses and cultivation regulation strategies enhance plant tolerant to abiotic stresses and the underlying stress tolerance mechanisms is crucial and will absolutely accelerate the breeding of stress-tolerant crops and correspondingly improve cultivation management.
This Special Issue explores sustainable crop production under abiotic stresses. Physiological responses and cultivation regulation for yield optimization will involve studies on the cultivation regulation strategies to enhance plant tolerance to abiotic stress (not limited to the stress factors of drought, salinity, heat, cold, flooding, nutrient deficiencies, heavy metal stress, and ultraviolet radiation) and plant growth, crop yield and quality, and the understanding of tolerance mechanisms at the morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecule levels. This Special Issue welcomes original research manuscripts, short communications, and reviews. Manuscripts submitted to Plants must not have been previously published and cannot be under consideration for publication in another journal.
Dr. Guanglong Zhu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- abiotic stress
- plant growth
- crop yield
- grain quality
- physiological mechanism
- stress tolerance
- cultivation regulation
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