Phenotyping for Resilient and Sustainable Crops
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2020) | Viewed by 9182
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There is a need to reveal and ultimately exploit the physiological and genotypic resilience mechanisms to combinations of multiple stresses and eCO2. Crops are continuously subjected to a number of different abiotic stresses in nature and in the field.
By 2050, climate change may boost yields by 8%–25%, but abiotic stresses such as drought and heat will have a negative effect. Stress might be alleviated by elevated CO2 but limited by other factors. Heat and drought are two major abiotic stresses that usually occur together. Crops are more vulnerable to multiple stress than single stress and sensitivity peaking in the reproductive phase, and the responses to multiple stresses cannot be deduced by studies of single stress, so the Special Issue is focusing on the huge and unmet need to understand and link the mechanistic basis of responses to multiple stress events to physiology, genetic markers, and on the yield stability which is the focus for the Special Issue.
Please share your success stories from research around the world in this Special Issue.
Submissions on the following topics (but not limited to) are invited:
1) Innovative and novel application of phenotyping in controlled conditions or in fields;
2) Stress effects on crop physiology and productivity;
3) Linking the physiology of crops to genetic marker;
4) Novel phenotyping methods for crops.
Dr. Carl-Otto Ottosen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- phenotyping
- multiple stresses
- elevated CO2
- stress
- crop resilience
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