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Crop Adaptation to Climate Change in the Context of Sustainable Development

As a complex phenomenon, climate change has a wide range of impacts on the environment and agriculture. Climatic change-induced abiotic stresses (e.g., drought, salinity, and extreme temperature) are the main impediment to plant growth and productivity, as they can change plant metabolism and damage biomolecules. Plants are known to evolve various defense mechanisms to cope with these stresses, such as modulation of phytohormone, alteration of source/sink dynamics synthesis of osmolytes, osmoprotectants, and antioxidants, as well as the production of stress-responsive genes and gene products.

The scope of “Crop Adaptation to Climate Change in the Context of Sustainable Development” is to improve our understanding of how phytoconstituents, hormones, and plant-associated microbes help the plants to tolerate the stress. The Topical Collection will focus on the current capabilities to assess these changes, mitigation, and adaptability strategies in conferring stress tolerance in plants. It also highlights the use of plant resources for ameliorating soil contaminants such as heavy metals.

The keywords are:

Climate change; Abiotic stresses; Adaptation; Sustainable Development

Editors

  • Ying Ma

    Dr. Ying Ma, Southwest University, China. She is a full Professor at Southwest University. Her work focuses on sustainability in Agriculture, Climate Change, and Environment. She serves on the editorial board of various journals, supervises a number of students on environment and agricultural sustainability issues. Her research interests include Sustainable agriculture; Environment decontamination; Climate change; Microbes.

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