Effects of Biostimulants on the Growth and Development of Horticultural Crops
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Biotic and Abiotic Stress".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 January 2025 | Viewed by 572
Special Issue Editors
2. Núcleo de Investigación en Producción Alimentaria, Facultad de Recursos Naturales, Universidad Católica de Temuco, P.O. Box 15-D, Temuco, Chile
Interests: plant physiology and molecular biology; mechanisms of resistance in plants to different abiotic stresses; plant hormones
Interests: abiotic stress; ecophysiology; molecular biology; phytohormones; plant physiology
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Dear Colleagues,
One of the primary challenges faced by the agriculture sector is enhancing food production to feed more than 9 billion people by 2050, while reducing the negative impacts on agroecosystems and contributing to sustainable agriculture. Thus, bioestimulants have become a promising agronomic tool and are widely considered a sustainable agricultural practice, with the ability to enhance the growth, yield and stress tolerance of plants, and improve the quality of food. However, more studies focused on horticultural crops under field conditions are needed.
Thus, the aim of this Special Issue of Horticulturae, entitled “Effects of Biostimulants on the Growth and Development of Horticultural Crops”, is to present advances regarding biostimulants and their effects on horticultural crops, as well as their contribution to sustainable agriculture. Biostimulants include substances and microorganisms (plant hormones, nanoparticles, microbial bioinoculants, humic acids, amino acids, seaweed extracts, and new ones) that improve the production of horticultural crops by upgrading the physiology and/or metabolic routes of plants, improving their nutrient uptake, and enhancing their tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress.
Dr. Jorge González-Villagra
Dr. Marjorie Reyes-Díaz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant hormones
- sustainable agriculture
- plant physiology
- tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses
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