Bioresources for the Improvement of Crops in Adverse Environments
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Farming Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 484
Special Issue Editors
Interests: crops; landraces; glucose metabolism; NGS; abiotic stress; algal biotechnology; synthetic biology
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Interests: G6PDH; kinetics; nitrogen metabolism; protein folding; plant physiology; abiotic stress
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The improvement of crop responses to adverse environments remains a huge challenge for plant researchers. Crops are able to modify different aspects of plant physiology, metabolism, and morphology by adjusting their resilience and/or resistance to perturbations. This ability has a more important and actual consequence when considering the nutritional values, quality, and economic return associated with crop commodities.
A bioresource is defined as “any resource of biological origin”. Particularly, important actors in crop improvement could be peculiar genotypes obtained from the wild environment (e.g., ancient genotypes or wild relatives) or from farmers (e.g., landraces, ecotypes), biological organisms able to establish advantageous symbiosis, useful bioproducts derived from simple organisms, and innovative natural substances.
This Special Issue seeks to gather research papers and reviews that describe novel and innovative uses of bioresources for the modern improvement of crops. Papers considering the adaptation of growth in response to abiotic or biotic stresses are of particular interest. Manuscripts focused on crop varieties that maintain unaltered quality under adverse environments are also welcome. Researchers are encouraged to submit papers that exploit both conventional and -omics technologies.
Dr. Simone Landi
Dr. Sergio Esposito
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- crops
- landraces
- abiotic stress
- breeding
- omics
- scavenging
- nutritional value
- symbiosis
- drought
- starvation
