Improving Yield, Biomass, and Root Formation in Crop Plants under Drought Stress Conditions
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 4065
Special Issue Editors
Interests: QTL mapping; genome-wide association mapping; disease resistance and abiotic stress tolerance; wheat; barley; plant genetics; molecular breeding
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Interests: molecular plant physiology; molecular plant nutrition; plant metabolomics
Interests: cyanobacteria; microalgae; photosynthesis; chloroplastic redox state; plant biochemistry; plant biology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
If current predictions indicating that the world’s population will rise to 9.4 billion by 2050 prove to be correct, a substantial increase in crop production will be required to meet the global demand for food. However, levels of crop productivity are unlikely to keep pace with this demand without technological interventions directed at enhancing photosynthetic efficiency and/or bolstering tolerance to abiotic stress. Drought poses a major constraint over crop productivity, both directly and through its aggravation of the impact of other stress factors, such as heat. Several biological means have evolved to tolerate short episodes of drought stress through biosynthesis of diverse metabolites essential for plant function, but these become ineffective when the duration of the stress is prolonged. Crop plants frequently encounter drought as transient or terminal stress, and indeed, terminal-drought stress is the most serious constraint to crop production worldwide. As a result of climate change, the global frequency and severity of drought events is likely to increase. A way to improve the drought tolerance of crop plants is to discover new tools and mechanisms that allow plants to continue to grow and maintain or increase yield, biomass, and root formations under water-limited growing conditions. This Special Issue of Plants will accept reviews and research articles with the scope on interdisciplinary approaches for improving plant productivity wherever drought represents a significant production constraint.
Dr. Fahimeh Shahinnia
Dr. Mohammad Reza Hajirezaei
Prof. Dr. Néstor Carrillo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- stress physiology
- drought tolerance
- genetic mechanisms
- photosynthesis
- morphological and quantitative traits
- primary metabolites
- transgenic plants
- adaptation to stress
- plant development
