Agronomic Approaches to Alleviating the Destructive Impacts of Abiotic Stress on Field Crops

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will cover studies reporting the responses of field crops in terms of growth, yield, and quality to agronomical strategies and the role of the latter in mitigating the negative impacts of environmental stresses against the background of abrupt global climate change.

The changes in the global climate are causing considerable fluctuations in various variables, such as temperature, precipitation, humidity, and solar radiation. Such shifts contribute greatly to environmental stress exposure in plants, and they are projected to become more frequent and severe. Abiotic stresses devastatingly impact the growth and production of all field crops, posing tremendous constraints to sustainable agriculture. Thus, it is crucial we find novel approaches to ameliorating the stress tolerance of field crops. Agronomic management practices can be employed to attenuate the detrimental impacts of abiotic stresses. These approaches can sustain crop production under a changing climate and rapidly growing global population.

Agronomic practices could effectively aid in alleviating the adversative impact of abiotic stresses such as drought, waterlogging, high temperature, frost, salinity, and heavy metals. Exogenously foliar applications, soil amendments, seed soaking, and other various agronomic practices have considerable potential in this regard.

This Special Issue aims to collate a variety of papers demonstrating agronomic approaches that could be applied to mitigate the adverse impacts of abiotic stresses. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

• Exogenously foliar application using plant extracts, antioxidants, nanoparticles, or any other biostimulant;
• Seed soaking;
• Soil amendments;
• Microorganism treatment;
• Screening a large number of genotypes under environmental stresses to identify tolerant genotypes;
• Multi-environment trials to identify stable, high-yielding, and adapted genotypes;
• Other related subjects.

Dr. Babar Shahzad
Dr. Mansour Elsayed
Prof. Dr. S. E. El-Hendawy
Guest Editors

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• climate change
• abiotic stresses
• field crops
• novel agronomic approaches
• sustainable agriculture