Sustainable Plant Production Systems
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant–Soil Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 36
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable plant production systems; soil quality; soil fertility
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Interests: sustainable plant production systems; soil quality; soil fertility
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable plant production systems have been increasingly studied, disseminated and adopted by farmers around the world. However, the use of systems that are aware of the tripod of sustainability, i.e., environmental, social and economic concepts, is still a concern of the whole society. Soil conservation tillage methods, such as no-till and integrated production systems, which combine agricultural, livestock, and forestry activities within the same area, are some of the main strategies that can be utilized for achieving these objectives. These systems can generate large benefits to the environment by conserving water and soil, reducing the direct impact of rain drop and runoff speed of water, improving water infiltration into the soil and avoiding soil erosion losses, as well as by decreasing the thermal soil amplitude, which provides a reduction in evapotranspiration and maintenance of soil moisture. In addition, these systems increase carbon accumulation in soil and improve the farmers' profitability through the diversification of crops. This Special Issue of Plants presents novel research in these sustainable plant production systems and its benefits to soil quality and crop yields.
Dr. Marcelo Andreotti
Dr. Wander Borges
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- intercropped systems
- agrosilvopastoral systems
- agropastoral systems
- silvopastoral systems
- soil fertility
- soil chemical attributes
- soil physical attributes
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