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Agronomy and Agroecology in a Polluted Atmosphere

A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Biosystem and Biological Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 7502

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Evgenios Agathokleous

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Institute of Ecology, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Interests: global change impacts on plant ecosystems; air pollution biomonitoring; carbon dioxide; dose responses; ecophysiology; forests; ozone; temperature; trees; hormesis; adaptive response
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Dr. Elena Paoletti

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National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Inst. Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), Firenze, Italy
Interests: Air pollution and climate change impacts on terrestrial ecosystems; biomonitoring; carbon cycle; nutrient cycle
Dr. Pierre Sicard

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Interests: ground-level ozone; epidemiological study; impacts on forests
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue comprises papers dealing with air pollution effects on agronomy and agroecology.

Along these lines, it includes selected papers that will be presented at the international conference “Air Pollution Threats to Plant Ecosystems” (https://cyprus2021.com/), 17-21 May, 2021, Paphos, Cyprus.

Air pollution, and especially surface ozone, continues to be a serious issue for plants and agricultural production. Progress has been achieved by controlling the emission of precursors in some areas of the world, but much remains to be done. This international conference will allow experts on the interactions between the atmosphere and plant ecosystems to meet, address the complex effects of air pollution and climate change on plant ecosystems, and discuss future strategies and priorities for the coming decade to improve the health, sustainability, and productivity of plant ecosystems worldwide.

The main subjects of the conference are as follows:

  1. Environmental status and health of plant ecosystems
  2. From cell to ecosystem: monitoring, biomonitoring, mechanisms, and modeling of air pollution and climate change effects on plants

The Guest Editors intend to allow crop and grassland experts, as well as experimentalists, monitoring experts, and modelers, from all over the world to participate in the dialogue and share their most up-to-date knowledge on the protection of plant ecosystems from air pollution in a changing climate.

Dr. Evgenios Agathokleous
Dr. Elena Paoletti
Dr. Pierre Sicard
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Agronomy is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • agricultural systems
  • agronomy
  • air pollution
  • biostimulants
  • climate change
  • conditioning
  • experiments
  • food supplies
  • modeling
  • monitoring
  • nitrogen
  • ozone
  • plant response
  • plant–insect interaction
  • plants
  • priming
  • risk assessment
  • rice
  • urban gardening
  • vegetables
  • vegetation
  • vegetation–atmosphere interactions
  • wheat
  • yields

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Particulate Matter Accumulation on Apples and Plums: Roads Do Not Represent the Greatest Threat
by Arkadiusz Przybysz, Andrzej Stępniak, Monika Małecka-Przybysz, ChunYang Zhu and Marzena Wińska-Krysiak
Agronomy 2020, 10(11), 1709; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10111709 - 04 Nov 2020
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Particulate matter (PM) is a mixture of solid and liquid substances of organic and inorganic character suspended in air. Plants are used as biological filters of air. However, PM can be deposited on their edible parts, with a negative effect on people’s health. [...] Read more.
Particulate matter (PM) is a mixture of solid and liquid substances of organic and inorganic character suspended in air. Plants are used as biological filters of air. However, PM can be deposited on their edible parts, with a negative effect on people’s health. The aim of this study was to document the PM accumulation on apples and plums harvested from orchards located alongside roads with differing amounts of traffic. Plums accumulated more PM than apples. The deposition of PM on apples increased during fruit development and was highest at harvest. The impact of road type, traffic intensity, and distance from the road on PM accumulation on fruit was small. The least PM was adsorbed by apples harvested from an orchard located close to a road with the highest traffic, while in the case of plums, no effect of the road on PM deposition was recorded. The amount of PM accumulated on fruits depended on the species (fruit morphology, harvest period), activities undertaken in the orchard (early pruning exposes fruits to PM, ecological preparations increase fruit viscosity), and sources of pollution other than the roads located close to the orchard. Washing fruits with water removed half of the accumulated PM. Full article
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Ozone Induced Loss of Seed Protein Accumulation Is Larger in Soybean than in Wheat and Rice
by Malin C. Broberg, Sara Daun and Håkan Pleijel
Agronomy 2020, 10(3), 357; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10030357 - 04 Mar 2020
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We investigated the effects of ozone (O3) on seed protein accumulation in soybean, rice, and wheat based on existing literature. We identified 30, 10, and 32 datasets meeting the requirements for soybean, rice, and wheat, respectively. Data for each crop were [...] Read more.
We investigated the effects of ozone (O3) on seed protein accumulation in soybean, rice, and wheat based on existing literature. We identified 30, 10, and 32 datasets meeting the requirements for soybean, rice, and wheat, respectively. Data for each crop were combined in response regressions for seed protein concentration, seed protein yield, and seed yield. Although seed yield in rice was less sensitive to O3 than in wheat, there was a significant positive effect of O3 on the seed protein concentration of the same magnitude in both crops. Soybean, an N-fixing high-protein crop, responded differently. Even though the effect on seed yield was similar to wheat, there was no indication of any effect of O3 on seed protein concentration in soybean. The negative influence of O3 on seed protein yield was statistically significant for soybean and wheat. The effect was larger for soybean (slope of response function: −0.58% per ppb O3) than for wheat (slope: −0.44% per ppb) and especially compared to rice (slope: −0.08% per ppb). The different response of protein concentration in soybean, likely to be associated with adverse O3 effects on N fixation, has large implications for global protein production because of the much higher absolute protein concentration in soybean. Full article
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