Effects of Management Practices on Field Crop Growth, Yield, and Quality
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Physiology and Crop Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 72
Special Issue Editors
Interests: field crops; regulating plant growth; soil water; soil temperature; soil aeration; soil fertility; soil salinity; heat and humidity in crop canopy
Interests: efficient water use in agriculture; irrigation and drainage; microclimate in cropland
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Dear Colleagues,
Due to global population growth, frequent extreme weather events, and water scarcity, enhancing crop growth, yield and quality has become an increasingly challenging task. At the regional scale, issues such as how to efficiently utilize agricultural water resources (surface and groundwater, brackish water, recycled water, precipitation, etc.), how to adjust planting structure to adapt to such limited agricultural water resources and how to recycle agricultural waste (such as aquaculture wastewater and crop residues) have always been research concerns. At the field scale, issues such as how to regulate the water, fertility, air, heat, and salt status of soil through surface mulching, tillage, cultivation, fertilization, and irrigation, improve the microclimate of farmland, optimize plant density and structure, fully utilize light and heat resources, minimize hazards such as drought stress, waterlogging, insufficient fertility, poor aeration, freezing damage, high temperature stress, salt stress, etc., and create suitable environmental conditions for crop growth are current hot research topics. This Special Issue of Plants will highlight the Effects of Management Practices on Field Crop Growth, Yield, and Quality. The research and exchange of these issues are not only conducive to promoting interdisciplinary integration and development, but also to integrating comprehensive management measures to address the aforementioned challenges.
Prof. Dr. Fengxing Wang
Prof. Dr. Haijun Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- regulation of soil water
- fertility
- aeration
- temperature
- salinity
- microclimate in crop land
- management practices
- regional scale
- farmland scale
- efficient use of agricultural water resources
- field crop
- growth, yield and quality
