Plant Cultivation in Recent Stresses

Dear Colleagues,

For plants, and especially for agricultural crops, stresses are factors arising from the environment that affect the yield quantity and quality, endangering the food security and safety of people worldwide in the case of cultivated plants. Broadly speaking, the most obvious stresses are generated by climate change, industrial emissions, agriculture, and urbanism. Researchers are now interested in finding scientific and technical solutions related to GEM (genetics–environment–management) in order to provide models for plant resistance to new environmental conditions that also emphasize the possibility of absorbing the excessive amount of carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in soils. To this end, an increase in SOC (soil organic carbon) and the biological activity of the soil are very desirable. In the context of the current energy crisis, specialized research is required to find cheaper and less polluting alternatives for plant cultivation’s essential inputs (especially N and C). Nitrogen (N) and carbon (C), for example, can be extracted from the air through the biosynthesis that naturally takes place in plants (photosynthesis and symbiosis with actinomycete bacteria and fungi). Agricultural producers are expecting new solutions from researchers, and these can only be attained through better collaboration between researchers specializing in agricultural and natural ecosystems. Therefore, this Special Issue of Plants aims to bring together the latest discoveries in the field of agriculture while considering the environmental and existential conditions that we are facing.

Prof. Dr. Berca Mihai
Guest Editor

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