All regions of the world are experiencing, and will continue to experience, the effects of climate change with varying magnitude and consequences. Climate change is an unavoidable and prevailing issue and is becoming increasingly apparent as we see more record-breaking heat waves, intense droughts, and shifts in rainfall patterns as well as a rise in average temperatures. These environmental changes touch every component of crop production and affect all four dimensions of food security: food availability, food accessibility, food utilization and food systems stability. In the wake of climate change, nutrient management is undoubtedly the most crucial factor having a significant impact on plant growth, enzyme activity, gene regulation, biosynthesis of plant hormones and macromolecules and crop productivity. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms influencing the absorption of nutrients and their availability and mobilization in plants is crucial to ensure the continuity of agricultural production and food security, which is extremely important in the era of advancing climate change.
The development of sustainable agricultural practices under distinct stressful scenarios through agronomical, breeding, physiological, molecular, or biotechnological approaches is required to promote yields and food quality. Furthermore, it can enlighten future paths in the selection of the most suitable and resilient cultivars for crop production to ensure food security for all. In recent years, -omics technologies including transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, phenomics, ionomics and panomics have gained considerable attention and have turned out to be promising tools for understanding the molecular mechanism of stress tolerance, nutrients mobilization, and development of quality traits in crop plants under climate change. Genetic engineering approaches have been significantly applied to develop transgenic plants with enhanced nutrients, reduced anti-nutrients, and improved stress tolerance.
This research topic intends to examine sustainable agricultural approaches to effectively mitigate and adapt to climate change and improve all four dimensions of nutritional security. We welcome original research, review articles, mini-review articles, methods, and opinions within the framework of research based on the stress signaling and response, gene networks, -omics and/or physiology and molecular biology approaches in the following research areas not limited to:
1. Manipulation of metabolic pathways, their regulation, and development of nutritionally enriched crops
2. Nutrient engineering and remodeling for crop stress tolerance
3. Biofortification and removal of anti-nutrient metabolites from food crops
4. Nutrient engineering and plant breeding programs
5. Mechanisms influencing nutrient availability and mobilization in crop plants in the era of climate change
6. Effects of exogenously- supplied essential and beneficial nutrients in minimizing the harmful effects of abiotic stresses and their mode of action in improving nutritional quality.
7. Computational modeling and visualization tools for metabolic engineering and remodeling in food crops
8. Targeted and untargeted -omics of crops to reveal nutrient homeostasis
9. Genomics of metabolic complexity and diversity with respect to nutritional aspects in crops
10. Genome editing for nutritional security in crops plants
All regions of the world are experiencing, and will continue to experience, the effects of climate change with varying magnitude and consequences. Climate change is an unavoidable and prevailing issue and is becoming increasingly apparent as we see more record-breaking heat waves, intense droughts, and shifts in rainfall patterns as well as a rise in average temperatures. These environmental changes touch every component of crop production and affect all four dimensions of food security: food availability, food accessibility, food utilization and food systems stability. In the wake of climate change, nutrient management is undoubtedly the most crucial factor having a significant impact on plant growth, enzyme activity, gene regulation, biosynthesis of plant hormones and macromolecules and crop productivity. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms influencing the absorption of nutrients and their availability and mobilization in plants is crucial to ensure the continuity of agricultural production and food security, which is extremely important in the era of advancing climate change.
The development of sustainable agricultural practices under distinct stressful scenarios through agronomical, breeding, physiological, molecular, or biotechnological approaches is required to promote yields and food quality. Furthermore, it can enlighten future paths in the selection of the most suitable and resilient cultivars for crop production to ensure food security for all. In recent years, -omics technologies including transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, phenomics, ionomics and panomics have gained considerable attention and have turned out to be promising tools for understanding the molecular mechanism of stress tolerance, nutrients mobilization, and development of quality traits in crop plants under climate change. Genetic engineering approaches have been significantly applied to develop transgenic plants with enhanced nutrients, reduced anti-nutrients, and improved stress tolerance.
This research topic intends to examine sustainable agricultural approaches to effectively mitigate and adapt to climate change and improve all four dimensions of nutritional security. We welcome original research, review articles, mini-review articles, methods, and opinions within the framework of research based on the stress signaling and response, gene networks, -omics and/or physiology and molecular biology approaches in the following research areas not limited to:
1. Manipulation of metabolic pathways, their regulation, and development of nutritionally enriched crops
2. Nutrient engineering and remodeling for crop stress tolerance
3. Biofortification and removal of anti-nutrient metabolites from food crops
4. Nutrient engineering and plant breeding programs
5. Mechanisms influencing nutrient availability and mobilization in crop plants in the era of climate change
6. Effects of exogenously- supplied essential and beneficial nutrients in minimizing the harmful effects of abiotic stresses and their mode of action in improving nutritional quality.
7. Computational modeling and visualization tools for metabolic engineering and remodeling in food crops
8. Targeted and untargeted -omics of crops to reveal nutrient homeostasis
9. Genomics of metabolic complexity and diversity with respect to nutritional aspects in crops
10. Genome editing for nutritional security in crops plants