Dear Colleagues,

Agriculture is challenged by food security and environmental safety. Meanwhile, water scarcity is growing increasingly due to climate change and environmental contamination, affecting cropping systems' productivity. Thus, cropping systems should include innovative strategies that consider crop responses to soil/water environment changes.

Soil is the key factor that determines any crop's success. Therefore, recent studies have employed approaches that enhance soil quality. For example, adding biochar, nanoparticles, bio-polymer composite materials, and nanomaterials to soil has great potential for soil remediation and fertility improvement, thus enhancing plant tolerance to different environmental stresses and improving crop productivity and quality. Furthermore, applying organic matter and biofertilizers to soils has been proposed as a feasible agricultural practice. Crop residue return to soil is also considered a novel approach to sustain cropping systems. Moreover, different irrigation management strategies should be developed to cope with the water shortage and ensure food safety.

Soil–plant–water interactions regulate plant growth physiology, and superior growth leads to higher crop production. The physiological responses of plants are also varied with soil/water environmental variations and stimulated by the availability of water and nutrients in the soil. However, the growth attributes of plants and their relations to the productivity and quality of crops, along with emerging agricultural technologies and practices, are not fully understood.

This Special Issue will focus on novel agricultural technologies and practices for improving crop physiology, productivity, and quality. This Special Issue will also emphasize the benefits of these novel technologies and practices for enhancing soil properties, crop physiology, and crop quality attributes. We invite researchers and experts to contribute with original research, reviews, and opinion pieces covering all topics related to green practice technologies for sustainable crop production. Authors are welcome to contribute reviews and articles on the most important aspects of cropping systems, including approaches that target improving crop production and enhancing soil quality and water productivity under the changing climate.

Dr. Yousef Alhaj Hamoud
Dr. Hiba Shaghaleh
Dr. Tingting Chang
Guest Editors

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• innovative agricultural technologies and practices
• sustainable crop production
• crop physiology, productivity, and quality
• climate change
• soil amendments
• biomaterials, nanomaterials, and smart materials
• fertilizers
• crop residue
• soil pollution and remediation
• irrigation management