Effects of Environmental Factors on Nutritional Quality of Plant Seeds and Other Edible Plant Parts
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 May 2025 | Viewed by 6059
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Dear Colleagues,
The latest climate prospects point to the occurrence of more frequent and intense extreme climate and weather episodes (including drought, flooding, heat waves, or freezes) accompanied by soil degradation and a higher incidence of plant diseases. These threats are currently compromising our food system as they severely impact agriculture, both quantitatively (compromising yields) and in terms of the nutritional quality of crops. Within these threatening scenarios, the urgency of finding innovative solutions for these problems intensifies and includes the use of cost-effective crops that are resilient to stress and able to provide more nutritious plant-based foods that will contribute to minimizing food insecurity worldwide. In this regard, the stability of plant performance and seed/grain quality are critical aspects to be analyzed to broaden our understanding regarding the effect(s) of different plant environmental stressors (prevalent in many agricultural areas around the world) on the physiology and nutritional properties of crops, which is key to fighting malnutrition. Hence, this Special Issue aims to collect recent findings regarding the impact of abiotic and biotic stressors on plant-based food quality with special emphasis on the nutritional quality of seeds or grains of stress-resilient edible plant species.
Dr. Maria Reguera
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- abiotic stress
- biotic factors
- nutritional quality
- seeds and grains
- edible plant parts
- climate change
- food security
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