Recent Trends in Reproductive Enhancement of Crop Resilience to Extreme Climate
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: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 490
Special Issue Editors
Interests: crop molecular breeding; drought and heat-resilience; genomic tools; gene expression; phenomic tools
Interests: germplasm; seed longevity; genetic integrity; genetic diversity
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Interests: molecular breeding; biotechnology; tissue culture; stress resilience
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As climate change intensifies, improving crop reproductive resilience to extreme environmental conditions becomes one of the most challenging issues and a key focus in agricultural research. The Plants journal will publish a Special Issue related to this topic, focusing on the recent advancements in the field of genetic, physiological, breeding, technological, and sustainable approaches to enhance crop adaptation and yield stability under abiotic stress. There are several strategies to mitigate effects of climate change to plant reproductive systems, including: (i) genetic and molecular approaches employing genomic selection for heat and drought tolerance, polyploidy, and epigenetics and stress memory; (ii) physiological and biochemical approaches related to hormonal regulation of reproductive development, pollen viability, and role of antioxidant systems; (iii) breeding approaches focused on developing climate-smart crop varieties, use of wild relatives and hybrid breeding, and implementation of marker assisted selection; (iv) interdisciplinary approach related to abiotic and biotic stress interactions, such as drought and heat stress effects on insect pollinator behavior, and salinity and cold stress effects on flowering and pollination efficiency; (v) technological innovations related to the use of high-throughput genotyping and phenotyping; and (vi) sustainable agricultural practices for climate resilience. Thus, considering the growing interest in enhancing crop tolerance to a changing climate and ensuring food security, this Special Issue will cover a wide range of topics, aiming to contribute to the overall understanding of various strategies that can be employed.
Dr. Dragana Trkulja
Prof. Dr. Andreas Börner
Dr. Dragana Miladinović
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- crop reproductive mechanisms
- heat and drought stress
- pollination efficiency
- sustainable agriculture
- genome editing
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