Crop Physiology and Crop Production

The Crop Physiology and Crop Production section of the journal Plants is devoted to publishing papers on all aspects of crop physiology and production, including, but not limited to, the internal plant physiological processes (nutrition, photosynthesis, metabolism, plant–microbe interactions, etc.) and external factors (plant–environment interactions, abiotic and biotic stress factors, etc.) that control crop production and grain, fruit, and general final product quality. Papers describing new methods for investigating phenotypic traits, such as plant growth, development, and composition, in addition to responses to the environment, widely known as phenotyping, are welcome. This section also welcomes papers on employing models to study crop physiology, production, and yield quality. Lastly, agronomic or physiological studies with the aim of helping growers to select or breed genotypes, varieties, clones, etc., are within the scope of this section.

The Crop Physiology and Crop Production section publishes both reviews and original research papers, in addition to application notes, computational tools, and resources and methods.

In particular, but not exclusively, this section welcomes high-quality manuscripts on the following topics:

• Abiotic stress factors;
• Agronomy;
• Bases for breeding;
• Biotic stress factors;
• Climate change;
• Crop physiology;
• Crop production/yield;
• Crop production quality;
• Leaf/plant/crop models;
• Omics (ionomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, degradomics, proteomics, and metabolomics);
• Phenotyping/high-throughput phenotyping;
• Plant physiology and plant stress physiology;
• Plant, soil, microbe, and environment interactions;
• Primary and specialized metabolism.