Climate change has caused fluctuations in the frequency and severity of droughts and floods, favoring extended periods of drought and extreme rainfall, rises in temperature, and associated with anthropic actions, has triggered other stressful abiotic effects, which have threatened terrestrial ecosystems and, especially agroecosystems.
Considering the current environmental scenario, studies related to cultural practices with native or cultivated species have been carried out with the aim of guaranteeing sustainable development, conservation of biodiversity and natural resources, and the guarantee of food sovereignty.
The adoption of physiological and nutritional management has increased, being a promising practice with the aim of contributing to the induction of tolerance or adjustments through plasticity, favoring the survival of plants during exposure to the stressor and the recovery more efficiently in the post-stress period. Protection responses or adjustments to adverse environments may be induced and some inducing agents may be cited as the interaction with other adverse environmental factors, the foliar or soil spraying with beneficial elements or with bioregulators, and polymers, among others.
Among the researched aspects, special attention has been given to strategies to mitigate the deleterious effects caused by stressful environments on the physiological mechanisms, growth, and productivity of plants.
For this reason, potential topics to be considered in this special issue:
“Abiotic Stress in Plants: Sustainability and Productivity” include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Effects of hydric, saline, thermal, and light stress, among others;
- The study of varieties;
- The use of elicitors and bio-inputs;
- Irrigation management;
- Protected cultivation;
- Beneficial elements;
- Synergy among abiotic factors;
- Photosynthetic metabolism;
- Antioxidant metabolism;
- Mineral metabolism;
- Resilience and environmental plasticity;
- Growth and productivity.
The dissemination of results from these studies may support silvicultural management practices, ensuring the conservation of biodiversity, protecting, recovering, and promoting the sustainable use of species and ecosystem, which the studied species are inserted, in addition to favoring the maintenance and/or increase of agricultural productivity.
Climate change has caused fluctuations in the frequency and severity of droughts and floods, favoring extended periods of drought and extreme rainfall, rises in temperature, and associated with anthropic actions, has triggered other stressful abiotic effects, which have threatened terrestrial ecosystems and, especially agroecosystems.
Considering the current environmental scenario, studies related to cultural practices with native or cultivated species have been carried out with the aim of guaranteeing sustainable development, conservation of biodiversity and natural resources, and the guarantee of food sovereignty.
The adoption of physiological and nutritional management has increased, being a promising practice with the aim of contributing to the induction of tolerance or adjustments through plasticity, favoring the survival of plants during exposure to the stressor and the recovery more efficiently in the post-stress period. Protection responses or adjustments to adverse environments may be induced and some inducing agents may be cited as the interaction with other adverse environmental factors, the foliar or soil spraying with beneficial elements or with bioregulators, and polymers, among others.
Among the researched aspects, special attention has been given to strategies to mitigate the deleterious effects caused by stressful environments on the physiological mechanisms, growth, and productivity of plants.
For this reason, potential topics to be considered in this special issue:
“Abiotic Stress in Plants: Sustainability and Productivity” include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Effects of hydric, saline, thermal, and light stress, among others;
- The study of varieties;
- The use of elicitors and bio-inputs;
- Irrigation management;
- Protected cultivation;
- Beneficial elements;
- Synergy among abiotic factors;
- Photosynthetic metabolism;
- Antioxidant metabolism;
- Mineral metabolism;
- Resilience and environmental plasticity;
- Growth and productivity.
The dissemination of results from these studies may support silvicultural management practices, ensuring the conservation of biodiversity, protecting, recovering, and promoting the sustainable use of species and ecosystem, which the studied species are inserted, in addition to favoring the maintenance and/or increase of agricultural productivity.