About Crops

Aims

Crops (ISSN 2673-7655) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal. It publishes original articles, reviews, and short communications in every aspect of crop science. The journal invites contributions concerning production, improvement and utilization of food, feed, forage, horticultural, and industrial crops. Our aim is to publish timely experimental and theoretical research results in a rapid and readily accessible manner. Full experimental details should be provided for research articles so that the results can be reproduced. Therefore, Crops accepts submissions of any length appropriate to the complexity of the subject. Accordingly, the scope of the journal for the consideration of submissions is set out in more detail below.

Scope

  • crop protection, pest and disease
  • crop irrigation and water use
  • seed science
  • crop chemistry
  • crop ecology and management
  • crop breeding and genetics
  • weed management
  • cropping system
  • crop and soil interactions
  • crop physiology and metabolism
  • precision agriculture
  • sustainable farming
  • pasture and forage science

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Crops will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

© 2024 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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