Strategies to Improve the Security and Nutritional Quality of Crop Species—2nd Edition
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 8
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Interests: production technology; cereals; yield; baking quality; cultivars; diseases; stress; mycotoxins
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Interests: wheat; crop quality; food quality; starch damage; rheological properties; Mixolab
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nutritious and safe food is essential for societal health. Today, consumers seek food that is nutrient-rich and health-promoting. However, ensuring food safety is the primary challenge. The quality of raw materials is crucial, as it directly impacts the final product. Therefore, cultivation technology for each plant species are vital. Proper crop management can increase nutrient levels and obtain suitable raw materials, while poor management may result in chemical contamination (e.g., pesticide residues) and physical contamination (e.g., heavy metals, nitrates). Fungal diseases can also reduce quality, producing harmful mycotoxins. Due to climate change, urbanization, and other human activities, concerns over these contaminants in foods are rising. Recently, biotechnology and genome editing have gained attention as strategies to enhance nutritional value and improve resistance to pests and adverse conditions like drought.
This Special Issue is a continuation of the previous Special Issue and still focuses on the role that soil quality, agrotechnology (tillage, forecrop, fertilization, crop protection, harvesting), and varieties play in the production of high-quality food. For this reason, high-quality interdisciplinary research results from different research fields, including genetics, new genomic techniques and breeding, agriculture, food technology, and ecology, are welcome. Original scientific and review papers will be accepted.
Prof. Dr. Grazyna Podolska
Dr. Anna Szafranska
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agrotechnology
- cultivars
- soil quality
- crops
- nutrients
- technological quality
- health-promoting foods
- food security
- sustainable agriculture
- crop protection
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