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Abiotic Stresses on Oliviculture: Impact and Adaptation Strategies
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Abiotic Stresses on Oliviculture: Impact and Adaptation Strategies

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 2024 | Viewed by 1100

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Maria Celeste Dias

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Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Calçada Martim de Freitas, 3000-456 Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: abiotic stress; antioxidants; biostimulants; drought; oxidative stress; plant metabolomics; plant physiology; stress mitigation; sustainable agriculture; olive tree
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Dr. Paula Lorenzo

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Centre for Functional Ecology (CFE)–Science for People & The Planet, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra (UC), 3000-456 Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: exotic plant invasion; impacts on native communities; plant invasion of new areas by releasing exotic allelochemicals (allelopathy); potential uses for the allelopathic compounds and plant residues (mainly from invasive plants) to palliate environmental problems related to conventional agriculture (phytotoxicity, natural compounds); new strategies to control invasive plants and its impacts on native communities
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Extreme weather events due to climate change are becoming more frequent, and climate projections pinpoint an increase in the frequency and severity of droughts, heatwaves, and floods. The olive tree, Olea europaea L., is one of the major crops in the Mediterranean region. Although well adapted to the climate of this region, stressful events threaten this culture, reducing productivity and changing the quality of olives and oil. To maintain the world’s increasing demand for olive oil and table olives, more productive and profitable orchard practices have been implemented, mostly based on intensive systems with high levels of irrigation and fertilization. In the context of extreme climate events and the increasing scarcity of water availability, there is a growing need to implement more sustainable agricultural practices that enhance plant resilience and improve the efficiency of water management under stress conditions to guarantee production. Thus, it is crucial to understand olive functional plasticity to stress and recovery capacity, as well as develop more sustainable agricultural production practices.

This Special Issue focuses on (but is not limited to) the following topics:

  • Challenges of climate change (e.g., drought, UV radiation, salinity, and heat) for oliviculture;
  • Olive adaptive responses to stress and reestablishment after stress relief (recovery): genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and physiological studies;
  • Sustainable agricultural practices to improve olive stress resilience;
  • Olive fruit yield and quality.

Dr. Maria Celeste Dias
Dr. Paula Lorenzo
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Plants is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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On Sandy, Boron-Poor Soils, Liming Induced Severe Boron Deficiency and Drastically Reduced the Dry Matter Yield of Young Olive Trees
by Margarida Arrobas, Soraia Raimundo, Nuno Conceição, José Moutinho-Pereira, Carlos Manuel Correia and Manuel Ângelo Rodrigues
Plants 2023, 12(24), 4161; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12244161 - 14 Dec 2023
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In the northeast of Portugal, like in many parts of the world, most soils are acidic, which may hamper crop productivity. This study presents the findings of a factorial experiment on olive (Olea europaea L.) involving three factors: (i) soil type [schist [...] Read more.
In the northeast of Portugal, like in many parts of the world, most soils are acidic, which may hamper crop productivity. This study presents the findings of a factorial experiment on olive (Olea europaea L.) involving three factors: (i) soil type [schist (Sch) and granite (Gra)]; (ii) cultivars [Cobrançosa (Cob) and Arbequina (Arb)]; and (iii) fertilizer treatments [liming (CaCO3) plus magnesium (Mg) (LMg), phosphorus (P) application (+P), boron (B) application (+B), all fertilizing materials combined (Con+), and an untreated control (Con-)]. Dry matter yield (DMY) did not show significant differences between cultivars, but plants grown in schist soil exhibited significantly higher biomass compared to those in granite soil. Among the treatments, +B and Con+ resulted in the highest DMY (50.8 and 47.2 g pot−1, respectively), followed by +P (34.3 g pot−1) and Con- (28.6 g pot−1). Treatment LMg yielded significantly lower values (15.6 g pot−1) than Con-. LMg raised the pH above 7 (7.36), leading to a severe B deficiency. Although Con+ also raised the pH above 7 (7.48), it ranked among the most productive treatments for providing B. Therefore, when applying lime to B-poor sandy soils, moderate rates are advised to avoid inducing a B deficiency. Additionally, it seems prudent to apply B after lime application. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Abiotic Stresses on Oliviculture: Impact and Adaptation Strategies)
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