Responses of Forage Crops to Environmental Stresses and Stress Alleviating Strategies
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Grassland and Pasture Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 108
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forage species; heavy metal stress; nanoparticles; physiological responses; plant growth; nutritional value
Interests: forage; drought stress; molecular mechanism; yield; nutritional quality; molecular breeding
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forage crops are the major feeding source for providing high nutrition for herbivores. The growth and production of forage crops are significantly restricted by diverse environmental stresses, including extreme low or high temperatures, drought, waterlogging, salinity, heavy metals ect. Due to the differences in environmental stresses, the plants respond differently to diverse stresses and have evolved complex adaptive mechanisms at the physiological, metabolic and molecular levels. This Special Issue aims at bringing together researchers, scientists, students, etc., to exchange and share their studies on revealling the responses of forage crops, such as alfalfa, ryegrass to environmental stresses, including the heavy metals, drought, salinity, cold, and heat stresses, and using biofertilizers, nanopaticles, plant growth regulatures to allevilate the environmental stresses. This Specical Issue will embrace disciplinary studies refering to morphology, physiology, biochemistry, genetics, and plant–environment interactions of forage crops under various environmental stresses. This Special Issue welcomes the submission of all types of articles, including orginal research, reviews, methodologies, opinions, and commentaries.
Dr. Chuan-Jie Zhang
Dr. Qiang Zhou
Dr. Xue-Yang Min
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- abiotic stresses
- alleviating effect
- biostimulants
- crop quality
- forage crops
- plant growth
