Sustainable Vegetable Production: Biostimulants, Stress Tolerance, and Nutritional Enhancement
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural and Floricultural Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2026 | Viewed by 287
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant gene expression under biotic/abiotic stress; RT-qPCR; biotic/abiotic stress
Interests: production and improvement of vegetables
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue “Sustainable Vegetable Production: Biostimulants, Stress Tolerance, and Nutritional Enhancement” aims to consolidate cutting-edge advances that enable resilient, resource-efficient, and nutrition-forward vegetable systems. We focus on plant biostimulants (microbial inoculants and non-microbial substances), rootstock–scion grafting, and allied stress-tolerance strategies that safeguard yield and quality under drought, salinity, heat, and other combined stresses. We also welcome contributions that elevate nutritional value—through agronomic and genetic biofortification—while quantifying environmental performance, techno-economic feasibility, and postharvest nutrient retention. We invite original research, reviews, and short communications spanning mechanisms (molecular to physiological), field validation across environments, life-cycle assessment, and regulatory perspectives. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, high-throughput phenotyping and multi-omics, microbiome engineering, product–environment–management modeling, nutrient-use efficiency, micronutrient density and bioavailability, and integration into scalable production systems. This Special Issue seeks to foster knowledge exchange that advances sustainable practice and strengthens vegetable supply-chain resilience.
Dr. Wojciech Szczechura
Dr. Valter Carvalho De Andrade Júnior
Prof. Dr. Antonio Ferrante
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant biostimulants
- microbial inoculants
- grafting
- stress tolerance
- drought stress
- nutrient-use efficiency
- microbiome engineering
- high-throughput phenotyping
- multi-omics
- biofortification
- micronutrient density
- bioavailability
- life-cycle assessment
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