Plant Metabolic Plasticity versus Productivity in Different Environments
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Farming Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 336
Special Issue Editors
Interests: legume plants; plant response mechanisms to abiotic and biotic stresses; plant tissue culture; secondary metabolites
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Interests: photosynthetic apparatus acclimatization to biotic and abiotic stresses; photosynthesis efficiency of woody organs; efficiency of photosynthetic apparatus during organ senescence
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
To ensure and maintain food security for the ever-growing human population, it is necessary to use crops that combine resistance/tolerance to various stresses with a high yield. Plants, throughout their lifetime, are exposed to various biotic stresses (fungal and bacterial diseases, pests) and abiotic stresses (drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, water lodging, high radiation intensity, mineral deficiency, heavy metals, etc.), which reduce crop quantity and quality. Since plants are physically unable to avoid most stress factors, they have evolved with a number of mechanisms that allow them to endure stress and/or mitigate its effects. These mechanisms involve using active main metabolic pathways and their products or activating alternative pathways and synthesizing new metabolites.
This Special Issue of Agronomy will focus on novel aspects of metabolic plasticity of different crop plants in relation to yield quantity and quality. Scientists worldwide are invited to submit original papers and reviews investigating various crop plants, including those cultivated in the field and in the greenhouse under different environments.
Dr. Barbara Tokarz
Dr. Krzysztof M. Tokarz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- abiotic and biotic stress
- acclimatization
- metabolic pathways
- plant productivity
- secondary metabolites
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