Exogenous Application of Bioactive Compounds for Enhancing Crop Quality and Stress Tolerance

Dear Colleagues,

Plants are often exposed to environmental stresses that can reduce their growth, yield, and crop quality. Climate change and increasing environmental challenges have made it important to find practical and sustainable approaches to improve plant tolerance to stress. The exogenous application of bioactive compounds and biostimulatory treatments can be an effective way to boost plant growth, quality, and stress tolerance.

This Special Issue focuses on the use of bioactive compounds and related treatments to improve crop quality and plant tolerance to environmental stresses. It also aims to provide a better understanding of the physiological, biochemical, and molecular responses of plants to these treatments.

The Special Issue welcomes studies on different bioactive compounds and biostimulatory agents, such as plant growth regulators, amino acids, antioxidants, signaling molecules, natural and plant-derived compounds, and microbial-derived metabolites. Emerging approaches, including nanoparticle-based treatments and the use of nanotechnology to improve the delivery or effectiveness of bioactive compounds, are also of interest. Studies related to drought, salinity, heat, cold, nutrient imbalance, oxidative stress, and other environmental stresses are particularly welcome.

Studies on the effects of these treatments on crop quality are also encouraged. This may include nutritional quality, antioxidant activity, primary and secondary metabolites, fruit and vegetable quality, yield, and postharvest performance. Research conducted under laboratory, greenhouse, and field conditions, as well as studies using physiological, biochemical, molecular, and omics approaches, are welcome.

We invite original research articles and review papers that provide new information on the use of bioactive compounds and related approaches to improve crop quality, plant stress tolerance, and sustainable crop production.

Dr. Siamak Shirani Bidabadi
Guest Editor

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