Special Issue "Plant Breeding Supporting the Sustainable Field Crop Production"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Balázs Varga
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Cereal Breeding Department, Centre for Agricultural Research, 2462 Martonvásár, Hungary
Interests: breeding; abiotic stress tolerance, plant protection; improving adaptability of plants; increasing water and nutrient use efficiency; effects of climate change; elevated CO2

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Improving the sustainability of agricultural production has key importance in minimizing its negative environmental impacts. The efficiency-targeted technologies (low-input farming, water-sawing tillage, etc.) could be only effective if the harvested crop can also make the most of the resources. Plant breeding is the first step of achieving sustainable farming besides the technology development because the plant's adaptability, resistance and yielding capacity could be driving factors in realising these goals.

Climate change and extreme weather events such as droughts, heat waves, floods and frost are the major factors that underline the need for varieties and hybrids having wide adaptation capacity. The changing environmental conditions support the spreading of invasive pests and weeds, further making favourable conditions for the distribution of plant diseases. Therefore, the modern breeding programme should focus on improving abiotic and biotic stress tolerance and biodiversity as well.

Agriculture, especially field crop production, is in charge of environmental pollution and reducing biodiversity and the health status of ecosystems. Water scarcity is a merging issue worldwide; therefore, improving the water and nutrient use efficiency of the cultivated crops could contribute to reserving the limited resources. The reduction of water demand could decrease the yield losses under drought conditions and lower irrigation-water demand could prevent the destruction of soil conditions, while soil health status is also a key factor in field production.

This Special Issue will aim to share the results of the recent researches from all over the world and highlight the attention of the scientific community to research topics. Furthermore, this Special Issue could contribute to the implementation of actual knowledge into practice which would be an essential step to meet the goals of sustainable agriculture.

Dr. Balázs Varga
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • plant breeding
  • drought stress
  • salinity
  • heat stress
  • fertilization
  • irrigation
  • water uptake
  • water use efficiency
  • nutrient use efficiency
  • pest and diseases resistance
  • disease and weed control, organic plant production
  • low-input farming

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Pro197Thr Substitution in Ahas Gene Causing Resistance to Pyroxsulam Herbicide in Rigid Ryegrass (Lolium Rigidum Gaud.)
Sustainability 2021, 13(12), 6648; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126648 - 10 Jun 2021
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Lolium rigidum Gaud. is a cross-pollinated species characterized by high genetic diversity and it was detected as one of the most herbicide resistance-prone weeds, globally. Acetohydroxyacid synthase (AHAS) resistant populations cause significant problems in cereal production; therefore, monitoring the development of AHAS resistance [...] Read more.
Lolium rigidum Gaud. is a cross-pollinated species characterized by high genetic diversity and it was detected as one of the most herbicide resistance-prone weeds, globally. Acetohydroxyacid synthase (AHAS) resistant populations cause significant problems in cereal production; therefore, monitoring the development of AHAS resistance is widely recommended. Using next-generation sequencing (NGS), a de novo transcriptome sequencing dataset was presented to identify the complete open reading frame (ORF) of AHAS enzyme in L. rigidum and design markers to amplify fragments consisting of all of the eight resistance-conferring amino acid mutation sites. Pro197Thr, Pro197Ala, Pro197Ser, Pro197Gln, and Trp574Leu amino acid substitutions have been observed in samples. Although the Pro197Thr amino acid substitution was already described in SU and IMI resistant populations, this is the first report to reveal that the Pro197Thr in AHAS enzyme confers a high level of resistance (ED50 3.569) to pyroxsulam herbicide (Triazolopyrimidine). Full article
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Dear Colleagues,

Improving the sustainability of agricultural production has key importance in minimizing its negative environmental impacts. The efficiency-targeted technologies (low-input farming, water-sawing tillage, etc.) could be only effective if the harvested crop can also make the most of the resources. Plant breeding is the first step of achieving sustainable farming besides the technology development because the plant's adaptability, resistance and yielding capacity could be driving factors in realising these goals.

Climate change and extreme weather events such as droughts, heat waves, floods and frost are the major factors that underline the need for varieties and hybrids having wide adaptation capacity. The changing environmental conditions support the spreading of invasive pests and weeds, further making favourable conditions for the distribution of plant diseases. Therefore, the modern breeding programme should focus on improving abiotic and biotic stress tolerance and biodiversity as well.

Agriculture, especially field crop production, is in charge of environmental pollution and reducing biodiversity and the health status of ecosystems. Water scarcity is a merging issue worldwide; therefore, improving the water and nutrient use efficiency of the cultivated crops could contribute to reserving the limited resources. The reduction of water demand could decrease the yield losses under drought conditions and lower irrigation-water demand could prevent the destruction of soil conditions, while soil health status is also a key factor in field production.

This Special Issue will aim to share the results of the recent researches from all over the world and highlight the attention of the scientific community to research topics. Furthermore, this Special Issue could contribute to the implementation of actual knowledge into practice which would be an essential step to meet the goals of sustainable agriculture.

Dr. Balázs Varga
Guest Editor

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