Dear Colleagues,

The question of how to achieve the expansion of food consumption with a growing population poses a great challenge under the current situation of a global water crisis, land degradation, climate change, agricultural diseases, environmental deteriorations, etc. Forage production as one of the main sources of meat and milk, but it is now facing huge threats due to the above negative factors. Thus, it is imperative to improve forage production and nutritional value by increased efficiency of resource utilization, enhanced adaptation to adversity as well as fortified nutrition, and so on. These integrated efforts will be of great importance in food availability and stability, agricultural sustainability and environment health.
This research Topic aims to enrich our understanding of the potentially valuable ways to enhanced forage production and nutritional value.
We welcome original research articles, methods, and opinions that address the aim. Manuscripts should address, but not be restricted to, the following topics:

• Molecular or physiological study between forages and microorganisms of plant growth promotion and biological control of insects or diseases;
• Gene function or pathway characterization via transgenic study or gene editing for forage production, nutrition and adaptation to adversity;
• Forage breeding by integrating high-throughput genotyping or marker-assisted selecting;
• Novel means that enhance resource utilization such as mineral elements, water, sunlight or others.

Dr. Jiejun Xi
Prof. Dr. Aike Bao
Prof. Dr. Linkai Huang
Prof. Dr. Bin Xu
Dr. Shangang Jia
Dr. Peng Zhou
Guest Editors

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• forages
• forage production and nutritional value
• efficiency of resource utilization
• adaptation to adversity