About this Research Topic
The environment is a trenchant factor for agriculture and food crops. Planet earth bears life due to its life-supporting climate, and the extreme climatic events have written a history of mass extinctions on the same planet earth. Therefore, we can easily understand the importance of extreme climates with respect to life's survival on the earth's surface. Extreme climate events directly affect the agricultural crops (including food crops) and could cause a complete failure of our food crops leading to severe famine and starvation. Therefore, it is essential to understand the extreme climatic changes/events and the causing factors behind them to develop a survival strategy for living organisms. This special issue has been aimed to highlight the importance of extreme climatic events concerning the survival of life.
Plants are the primary producers and carbon sequesters on the earth. All of our foods are either directly based on plants or linked to plants on a few steps in the food chain. Humans have spent a lot of resources, time, and energy to develop the food-producing agriculture sector. The survival of humans seems impossible without the continuous cultivation of food crops. However, all of the plant-based foods depend upon the climate and extreme climatic events. Therefore, the main focus of this research topic is on the extreme climatic events that could threaten our food crops. This research topic will highlight
1. the effect of environmental extremes on growth and yield of food crops
2. molecular interactions of crops with climatic extremes (CEs)
3. the mechanism through which CEs affect normal physiological and biochemical processes of crops
4. the modulations of primary and secondary metabolites in crops after exposure to CEs
5. the interplay of plant hormones, and enzymes, with CEs in modifying the crop phenology
6. the techniques to countervail the impact of CEs
7. effect of CEs on postharvest physiology and shelf life of crop-based food commodities
All the studies performed with modern and high-throughput techniques, reporting advanced and novel findings in any of the above-mentioned areas, are welcome for their submission to this Research Topic.
Please note: Frontiers in Plant Science does not accept solely descriptive studies - studies which report responses to treatments and descriptive reports of ‘Omics studies will not be considered if they do not progress biological understanding of these responses.
Plants are the primary producers and carbon sequesters on the earth. All of our foods are either directly based on plants or linked to plants on a few steps in the food chain. Humans have spent a lot of resources, time, and energy to develop the food-producing agriculture sector. The survival of humans seems impossible without the continuous cultivation of food crops. However, all of the plant-based foods depend upon the climate and extreme climatic events. Therefore, the main focus of this research topic is on the extreme climatic events that could threaten our food crops. This research topic will highlight
1. the effect of environmental extremes on growth and yield of food crops
2. molecular interactions of crops with climatic extremes (CEs)
3. the mechanism through which CEs affect normal physiological and biochemical processes of crops
4. the modulations of primary and secondary metabolites in crops after exposure to CEs
5. the interplay of plant hormones, and enzymes, with CEs in modifying the crop phenology
6. the techniques to countervail the impact of CEs
7. effect of CEs on postharvest physiology and shelf life of crop-based food commodities
All the studies performed with modern and high-throughput techniques, reporting advanced and novel findings in any of the above-mentioned areas, are welcome for their submission to this Research Topic.
Please note: Frontiers in Plant Science does not accept solely descriptive studies - studies which report responses to treatments and descriptive reports of ‘Omics studies will not be considered if they do not progress biological understanding of these responses.
Keywords: Abiotic stress, drought, environmental stress, temperature, Climatic extremes
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
