New Trends in Crop Breeding and Sustainable Production

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28 February 2027

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31 May 2027

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Dear Colleagues,

Under the escalating pressures of climate change, resource scarcity, and environmental degradation, maximizing crop yield and quality has become a critical global challenge. Addressing this requires breakthrough advances in crop breeding technologies, cultivation management practices, farming systems, precision agriculture, and food functionality research. This Topic, "New Trends in Crop Breeding and Sustainable Production," aims to establish a high-level academic platform focusing on the following key research areas:

Multi-Omics Technology Applications: Utilizing cutting-edge genomics, metabolomics, and other omics approaches to identify key genes for stress resistance, high yields, and superior quality in crops.

Climate-Resilient Breeding: Integrating artificial intelligence and genomic selection technologies to develop new crop varieties with enhanced stress tolerance, high yields, and excellent quality.

Nutritional Quality Improvement: Employing biofortification technologies to enhance the nutritional value of staple crops.

Climate-Adaptive Cultivation Management: Developing crop management techniques that combine stress resistance, high yields, quality, and resource efficiency to address various climatic adversities, along with sustainable agricultural practices with small environmental impacts.

We particularly emphasize the deep integration of modern molecular breeding technologies with smart agriculture and innovative applications of digital agriculture technologies in breeding and cultivation management. We welcome original research articles, comprehensive reviews, and perspective pieces covering plant stress physiology, metabolic pathways, field trials, and socio-economic impact assessments. Together, we aim to advance modern agriculture in regard to enhanced stress tolerance, high yields, efficiency, quality, and sustainability.

Dr. Hongkun Yang
Dr. Xiangbei Du
Dr. Dagang Wang
Topic Editors

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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
International Journal of Molecular Sciences ijms	4.9	9.0	2000	20.5 Days	CHF 2900	Submit
Agronomy agronomy	3.4	6.7	2011	17.2 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Agriculture agriculture	3.6	6.3	2011	18 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Plants plants	4.1	7.6	2012	17.7 Days	CHF 2700	Submit
Crops crops	1.9	2.4	2021	23.5 Days	CHF 1200	Submit
International Journal of Plant Biology ijpb	-	3.0	2010	19.6 Days	CHF 1200	Submit

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