Microbiome: A Tool for Plant Stress Management in Future Production Systems

Dear Colleagues, 

This Special Issue aims to gather transdisciplinary contributions with innovative research, methodological proposals, and research ideas on sustainable cultivation/production systems.

We focus on unraveling the interactions, and designing cultivation systems, where the crop plant breeding lines are cultivated along with their rhizosphere components. In order to achieve this, we must “learn” from the rhizospheres, which have assisted landraces and crops’ wild relatives in surviving under various stress situations. We use next-generation sequencing combined with high-resolution microscopy and metabolomic approaches, as well as nanointerface studies to expand the potential of modern plant-breeding lines. Sustainable production system issues are critical in regions where the effects of climate change have created severe stress conditions (e.g., the Global South), but also in the Global North where artificial fertilization has resulted in agricultural pollution and crop nutritional stress.  

For this Special Issue, we seek the submission of regular research papers, communications, short notes, and reviews with research proposals.

Dr. Luz E. de-Bashan
Dr. Salme Timmusk
Guest Editors

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