Sustainable Mechanisms for Crop Development, Productivity and Quality Promotion
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Physiology and Crop Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2025 | Viewed by 4219
Special Issue Editor
Interests: more sustainable tillage and sowing systems; field crop management; crop production; quality and safety; inter-cropping; multi-cropping; soil properties and GHG emissions; weed and pest management; organic and precision farming; biomass producing for biofuel processing
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Dear Colleagues,
Modern intensive unbalanced agriculture initiates physical, chemical, and biological soil degradation, decreases in soil and crop biodiversity, pests and weeds developing resistance to pesticides, increases in GHG emissions and energy consumption, and risks of food pollutions. Environmentally friendly and energy-efficient farming technologies are being integrated into agricultural production systems with the greatest economic, energy, and environmental benefits. There are several sustainable ways prevent problems and warrant successful crop growth, productivity, and quality development: balance fertilizers and/or pesticides, new generation crop varieties and seed treatments, and more sustainable and precise ploughless tillage and seedbed preparation technologies.
In addition, this Special Issue will present investigations on new-generation organic or nano-organic, bio-organic, bacteria-inoculated fertilizers and bio-preparations for primary and additional fertilization, bio-pesticides, combinations of mechanical, physical, and biological control of harmful organisms, and crop functionality increase by cover-cropping, inter-cropping, and multi-cropping. Research data on technologies economy, energy, and environmental impact are also welcome.
Prof. Dr. Kęstutis Romaneckas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainable agrotechnologies
- crops development and yields
- quality formation and assessment
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