Ensuring Yield: Physiological and Biochemical Mechanisms of Crops against Environmental Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

In natural environments, plants are continuously challenged by different and often multiple adverse environmental conditions, which affect plant performance, yield, yield quality and, ultimately, plant survival. However, plants have evolved physiological and biochemical mechanisms to cope with these adverse conditions that might be used as markers for the precocious selection of the best adapted cultivars and/or rootstock species. In this respect, it is important to define which markers better describe the tolerant or sensitive behavior of the plant species of interest.

This Special Issue will focus on the evaluation of physiological and biochemical parameters as valid markers for stress tolerance assessment of cultivars, rootstock genotypes or poorly explored crop species under single or multiple abiotic stress conditions. Manuscripts dealing with high-throughput omics technologies will be particularly welcome, constituting important tools for the evaluation of large genotype collections.

Research papers and review articles focused on high-throughput strategies for genotype evaluation, not necessarily based on omics technologies, will be considered within the scope of this Special Issue.

Dr. Vicente Arbona
Guest Editor

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