Regulations by Light Quantity and Quality and Their Effects on Crops
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 65530
Special Issue Editors
Interests: branching; light quantity; light quality; environmental regulations; plant architecture and visual quality
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Changes in light quantity and quality induce regulations of a number of processes that contribute to the acclimatization of crops to their environment. Historically, fluctuation in light quantity has been shown to regulate photosynthesis, and changes in light quality to play an essential role in regulating morphogenesis. We now know that both light components regulate photosynthesis and morphogenesis, as well as many other processes crucial for crop yield and quality, such as dry matter partitioning, secondary metabolite production and regulation of plant defense.
However, many questions still deserve to be addressed. For instance, how does the duration of exposure and the time step of light fluctuations affect regulations? What are the sites of light perception involved in specific regulations and how are the signals integrated over a plant? How is light quality distributed inside canopies? What are the physiological processes underlying the phenotypic responses? What are the interactions between light quantity, light quality, and genotype? Progress in knowledge will help to include the regulations exerted by light quantity and quality in models, especially on plant morphogenesis, so as to better account for feedback effects. It will also give keys to optimize light use in emerging production systems as mixed crops associating different species or cultivars or to make best use of LEDs technologies for crops grown in greenhouse or closed environment modules.
This Special Issue will highlight original research papers and reviews on recent advances on the regulations by light quantity and quality on a range of traits of importance for crops and on the underlying processes. The development of experimental and modelling approaches to facilitate the exploration of light regulations and their effects is also welcome.
Dr. Sabine Demotes-MainardDr. Didier Combes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Light quantity
- Light quality
- Light distribution
- Photomorphogenesis
- Photosynthesis
- Light sensing
- Growth and development
- Crop quality
- Light × genotype interaction
- Modeling
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