Sustainable agriculture implies meeting the present global food requirements without hindering the requirements of future generations. Agricultural sustainability is a major challenge given the rising human population and significant environmental degradation.
Achieving agricultural sustainability requires a focus on improving the use of chemicals, the quantity and quality of water, the type of seed source, surrounding abiotic parameters, the biome, and plant types. At the same time, bioengineering could help in achieving agricultural sustainability by creating crops that are more tolerant to stresses caused by climate change and environmental degradation.
This Research Topic aims to collate research on the genes, transcripts, proteins, and metabolic pathways of plants that can induce stress resilience and enhanced productivity in various crop types. The focus is on how we can use this knowledge to implement various biotechnological strategies to support crop growth and productivity under the increasing stresses cause by climate change and ultimately achieve agricultural sustainability.
Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
Climate change: reasons and induction in crop cultivating biomes
Impact of changing climate conditions on the morphology and physiology of crops
Impact of climate change on nutritional quality and yield of plants
Affected genes/genome in the presence of climatic variations like salt, drought or the simultaneous presence of multiple stresses
Affected transcriptome and proteome of plants in presence of various stresses
Implementing the generated BIG DATA for identification of molecular framework reflecting stress tolerance mechanism in plants
Employing biotechnological tools to employ the generated knowledge for the development of better crop varieties
Biotechnological strategies to regulate crop sustainability and production
Affected population of small RNA in stress and their engineering for the betterment of crops
Genome sequencing strategies to look into possible mechanisms to induce growth sustainability and stress tolerance in plants
Understanding the efficiency of biotechnological tools for crop improvement with respect to other available methods
Sustainable agriculture implies meeting the present global food requirements without hindering the requirements of future generations. Agricultural sustainability is a major challenge given the rising human population and significant environmental degradation.
Achieving agricultural sustainability requires a focus on improving the use of chemicals, the quantity and quality of water, the type of seed source, surrounding abiotic parameters, the biome, and plant types. At the same time, bioengineering could help in achieving agricultural sustainability by creating crops that are more tolerant to stresses caused by climate change and environmental degradation.
This Research Topic aims to collate research on the genes, transcripts, proteins, and metabolic pathways of plants that can induce stress resilience and enhanced productivity in various crop types. The focus is on how we can use this knowledge to implement various biotechnological strategies to support crop growth and productivity under the increasing stresses cause by climate change and ultimately achieve agricultural sustainability.
Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
Climate change: reasons and induction in crop cultivating biomes
Impact of changing climate conditions on the morphology and physiology of crops
Impact of climate change on nutritional quality and yield of plants
Affected genes/genome in the presence of climatic variations like salt, drought or the simultaneous presence of multiple stresses
Affected transcriptome and proteome of plants in presence of various stresses
Implementing the generated BIG DATA for identification of molecular framework reflecting stress tolerance mechanism in plants
Employing biotechnological tools to employ the generated knowledge for the development of better crop varieties
Biotechnological strategies to regulate crop sustainability and production
Affected population of small RNA in stress and their engineering for the betterment of crops
Genome sequencing strategies to look into possible mechanisms to induce growth sustainability and stress tolerance in plants
Understanding the efficiency of biotechnological tools for crop improvement with respect to other available methods