Strategies to Alleviate Abiotic Stress in Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2027 | Viewed by 15
Editors
Interests: ecophysiology; plant physiology; seedling production; metabolic factors of plants; cultivation of native species
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Interests: ecophysiology; plant physiology; seedling; protected cultivation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change has been causing changes in the frequency and severity of droughts and floods, favoring extended periods of drought and extreme rainfall, rises in temperature and is associated with anthropogenic actions, triggering other stressful abiotic effects, which have threatened terrestrial ecosystems and, especially, agroecosystems.
Considering the current environmental scenario, studies related to cultural practices with native or cultivated species have been carried out with the aim of guaranteeing sustainable development, conservation of biodiversity and natural resources and the guarantee of food sovereignty.
The adoption of physiological and nutritional management has increased, being a promising practice with the aim of contributing to the induction of tolerance or adjustments through plasticity, favoring the survival of plants during exposure to the stressor and the recovery more efficiently in the post-stress period. Protection responses or adjustments to adverse environments may be induced and some inducing agents may be cited as the interaction with other adverse environmental factors, the foliar or soil spraying with beneficial elements or with bioregulators, polymers, among others.
Among the researched aspects, special attention has been given to strategies to mitigate the deleterious effects caused by stressful environments on the physiological mechanisms, growth and productivity of plants.
For this reason, potential topics to be considered in this Special Issue: “Strategies to Alleviate Abiotic Stress in Plants” include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Effects of hydric, saline, thermal, light stress, among others;
- Memory expression;
- The use of elicitors,bio-inputs and biostimulants;
- Irrigation management;
- Protected cultivation;
- Beneficial elements;
- Synergy among abiotic factors;
- Photosynthetic metabolism;
- Antioxidant metabolism;
- Mineral metabolism;
- Resilience and environmental plasticity;
- Growth and productivity.
The dissemination of results from these studies may support silvicultural management practices, ensuring the conservation of biodiversity, protecting, recovering and promoting the sustainable use of species and ecosystems in which the studied species are inserted, in addition to favoring the maintenance and/or increase in agricultural productivity.
Dr. Silvana de Paula Quintão Scalon
Dr. Costa Edílson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- memory expression
- biostimulants
- photosynthetic metabolism
- antioxidant metabolism
- abiotic stress
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