Improving Yields by Regulating Crop Respiration and Photosynthesis
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Physiology and Crop Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 October 2025 | Viewed by 1233
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nitrogen use efficiency; photosynthesis; high throughput phenotyping; crop yield; sustainable agriculture
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Dear Colleagues,
Crop scientists are facing a major challenge to grow more with less to feed an increasing human population to ensure food security. Photosynthesis and respiration are two key physiological processes that drive crop growth and productivity, which are very much subjected to the vagaries of weather especially when grown in the field. With increasing unpredictable weather conditions due to climate change, whether it is frequent heatwaves that occur during flowering or reproductive phase of the crops or/and low rainfall when the plants are exposed to drought, all these events have dire consequences resulting in yield reductions. One of the methods used to increase crop productivity involves investigating the factors and traits that regulate photosynthesis and respiration in different crops. This Special Issue presents research covering this topic at the physiological, biochemical and molecular levels, focusing on photosynthesis and respiration in different crops. Novel approaches or methodologies that are currently being researched to understand the regulation of photosynthesis and respiration will also be considered in this Special Issue
Dr. Oorbessy Gaju
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- photosynthesis
- respiration
- yield
- assimilate
- ATP
- NADPH
- assimilate
- vcmax
- chlorophyll
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