Olive Cultivars and Their Response to Climate Change
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 September 2023) | Viewed by 1269
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Of the more than 1200 olive cultivars (Olea europaea var europaea) described so far, only 5% occupy more than 95% of our olive groves worldwide. The majority remain relegates to the germplasm banks of olive, many of them resistant to diseases or tolerant to drought, salinity or high temperatures. Global warming is affecting vitally important natural ecosystems producing consequently disappearing part or all of many ecosystems. In the case of olive groves, it is essential to increase the biodiversity of such landscapes with new authoctone olive cultivars not yet physiologically, agronomically, genetically and biochemically characterised. Knowing all these aspects of the plants will permit to encourage the responsible increase in biodiversity of the fields and avoid soil erosion and the loss of flora and fauna. All these considerations would limit the number of consumables in the soil and promote a circular economy, with the reuse of olive grove waste to transform our landscapes into diverse and living ecosystems.
Therefore, we must use our olive genetic resources in a responsible way in this century of climatic change. It is necessary to make possible the sustainability of fields, promote the quality of their oils, and encourage the circular economy and biodiversity to prevail over the varietal lack existing in the current ecosystems
Prof. Dr. Ana M. Fernández-Ocaña
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- olive cultivars
- climate change
- genetic resources
- cultivar characterisation
- olive biotic and abiotic stress
- olive transcriptome
- ground cover
