Environmental Stresses and Horticulture Crop Yields

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change and environmental impacts have interfered with food production and the yield of the main horticultural crops. Plants are constantly exposed to extreme environmental conditions, which can cause physiological, biochemical and nutritional disorders that affect, above all, the growth and yield of horticultural species, such as fruit, vegetable, ornamental, medicinal and spice plants. Climate change forecasts and population growth in the coming decades are the main challenges to horticultural production around the world. Therefore, this Special Issue focuses on the theme “effects of environmental stresses (water, salts, nutritional deficiency, pollution, heavy metals, temperature and toxicity) on the morphophysiological, anatomical, biochemical, nutritional aspects and on the yield and quality of horticultural crops”. Strategies that mitigate the damage caused by environmental stress(es) related to nutritional, hormonal and cultivation environment management, as well as the anatomical, physiological and biochemical mechanisms involved with the adaptability and acclimatization of plants and the identification of species and genotypes tolerant to environmental stress with an emphasis on horticultural species, are within the scope of this Special Issue. In this sense, the Special Issue is open to the submission of high-quality studies on the topic “Environmental Stresses and Yields of Horticultural Crops”. Review manuscripts and original research on the topic are accepted for submission to the journal Horticulturae (impact factor 3.1; citescore 2.4).

Prof. Dr. Antônio Gustavo de Luna Souto
Prof. Dr. Francisco Vanies Da Silva Sá
Prof. Dr. João Everthon Da Silva Ribeiro
Guest Editors

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• abiotic stresses
• horticulture crops
• stress mitigation
• plant physiology
• soil fertility
• soil and water management
• plant breeding
• stress tolerance
• multiple stress
• plant nutrition
• water stress
• extremes temperature