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The Impact of Land Use Change on Soil Quality Evolution
edited by , and
submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 167 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use/cover change; soil quality; soil degradation; conservation tillage; soil carbon nitrogen cycling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Farming Sustainability)
Functional Genomics and Molecular Breeding of Root and Tuber Crops
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 165 | Submission Open
Keywords: root and tuber crops; functional genomics; gene function and molecular mechanism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Breeding and Genetics)
The Use of Substances Is Increasing Plant Resistance to Abiotic Stressors submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 126 | Submission Open
Keywords: abiotic stress; plant metabolism; plants production; anti-stress agents
(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant-Crop Biology and Biochemistry)
Intelligent Information System for Agriculture Based on Vision Technology
edited by , and Richard Koech‬
submission deadline 1 Feb 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6198 | Submission Open
Keywords: intelligent system; sensors; smart farming; data science; vision technology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
New Insights into Pest and Disease Control in Rice
edited by and
submission deadline 1 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1794 | Submission Open
Keywords: IPM; disease resistance; pest management; weed control; bio-control; biostimulators; nanotechnology; intelligent monitoring; remote sensing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pest and Disease Management)
Simulation Environments and Image Synthesis for Precision Agriculture: Advancing Data Quality, Accessibility, and Agricultural Innovation
edited by and Mulham Fawakherji
submission deadline 1 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 165 | Submission Open
Keywords: synthetic data; generative models; VAEs; simulation environments; crop management; soil management; water management; remote sensing; machine learning; data augmentation; data quality; data accessibility
(This special issue belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
Cutting Edge Research of Nanoparticles Application in Agriculture submission deadline 10 Feb 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14984 | Submission Open
Keywords: agricultural nanobiotechnology; nanobiotechnology; nano-sensors; nano-carriers; nano-pesticides; nano-fertilizers; biotic and abiotic stress; crop improvement
Extraction and Analysis of Bioactive Compounds in Crops—2nd Edition submission deadline 10 Feb 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13454 | Submission Open
Keywords: bioactive compounds; secondary metabolites; crop analysis; identification; ultrasound-assisted extraction; microwave-assisted extraction; pressurized liquid extraction; supercritical fluid extraction; quality control; by-products valorization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Biosystem and Biological Engineering)
Sustainable Management in Water-Agricultural Nexus submission deadline 10 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 839 | Submission Open
Keywords: water recycling and reuse; sustainable agriculture practices; water resources; water security; water– agriculture nexus; sustainable management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Use and Irrigation)
Applied Research and Extension in Agronomic Soil Fertility Series II
edited by Lianghuan Wu, , Wenhai Mi and Qingxu Ma
submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 19390 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil fertility; carbon sequestration; soil nutrient cycling; crop production; agricultural soils
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Plant Nutrition)
Robotics and Automation in Farming submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3471 | Submission Open
Keywords: agricultural robotics; automation; smart farming; precision agriculture
(This special issue belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
Plant Ecophysiology Under Anthropogenic and Natural Stresses
edited by
submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 860 | Submission Open
Keywords: abiotic stress; allelopathy; antioxidant system; biostimulants; biotic stress; climate change; ecophysiology; free radicals; heavy metals; metabolites; oxidative stress; photosynthesis; plant stress responses; micromorphological changes in plants
(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant-Crop Biology and Biochemistry)
The Contribution of Phytobiomes for Resilient and Productive Agroecosystems
edited by Pierre Hohmann
submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 175 | Submission Open
Keywords: plant-associated microbiomes; plant– microbe interactions; microbial ecology; metagenomics; plant– environment feedback; metagenomic prediction; microbial inoculation; SynComs; stress resistance; resilient agroecosystems; sustainable agriculture
(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant-Crop Biology and Biochemistry)
Agronomic Biofortification Practices on Crops submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 170 | Submission Open
Keywords: agronomy; abiotic stress response; biofortification; edible crops; mineral elements; nutritional improvement; plant science; plant metabolism; quality assessment; stress tolerance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant-Crop Biology and Biochemistry)
Sustainable Viticulture in the Face of Climate Change: Innovative Strategies for Quality Enhancement and Ecosystem Preservation
edited by
submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 144 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable viticulture; climate change adaptation; soil health; water management; biodiversity conservation; precision agriculture; ecosystem services; wine quality; environmental stewardship; agricultural sustainability
(This special issue belongs to the Section Horticultural and Floricultural Crops)
Soil Microbe and Nematode Communities in Agricultural Systems
edited by , and Shuxia Jia
submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5140 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil microorganisms; soil nematodes; community structure; soil biodiversity; soil functions; soil health; soil ecosystems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Innovative Cropping Systems)
Tillage Systems and Fertilizer Application on Soil Health
edited by Cezar F. Araujo Junior and Eduardo Da Costa Severiano
submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5089 | Submission Open
Keywords: (sub) tropical soils; brazilian cerrado; no-tillage system; soil health
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Plant Nutrition)
Molecular Mechanism of Quality Formation in Rice
edited by Yulong Ren and Hui Dong
submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1916 | Submission Open
Keywords: rice quality; milling quality; appearance quality; eating and cooking quality; nutritional quality; safety quality; map-based cloning; multi-omics genes; regulatory network; molecular mechanism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Breeding and Genetics)
Weed Ecology, Evolution and Management
edited by Mihály Zalai, Zita Dorner and János György Nagy
submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1326 | Submission Open
Keywords: weed vegetation; tillage; mechanical weed control; herbicide weed control; weed control
(This special issue belongs to the Section Weed Science and Weed Management)
In-Depth Investigation and Integrated Management of Fruit Crop Diseases submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1204 | Submission Open
Keywords: plant diseases; fruit crop diseases; plant pathogens; postharvest management; biological control
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pest and Disease Management)
Exploiting Beneficial Plant–Microorganism Interactions for Resilient Farming submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 844 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil microbiology; plant breeding; inoculant; biological control; biofertilizer; nutrient cycling; biotic stress; abiotic stress
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Plant Nutrition)
Adaptation Strategies Under Climate Change in Mediterranean Agriculture
edited by António Canatário-Duarte and
submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 158 | Submission Open
Keywords: mediterranean agriculture; climate change; crop adaption strategies; water scarcity; increase soil conservation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Farming Sustainability)
Advances in Tillage Methods to Improve the Yield and Quality of Crops
edited by Jiatun Xu and
submission deadline 23 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1650 | Submission Open
Keywords: plant growth; crop productivity; soil fertility; agroecosystems; plant– soil relationships; sustainable agricultural practices
(This special issue belongs to the Section Farming Sustainability)
Agricultural Waste Derived Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications submission deadline 25 Feb 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 20706 | Submission Open
Keywords: agrowaste; nanomaterials; nanocomposites; environmental monitoring/remediation; sensors; catalysts; food application; biomedical application; diagnostics and therapeutics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Biosystem and Biological Engineering)
Unmanned Farms in Smart Agriculture
edited by Zhiyan Zhou and Lian Hu
submission deadline 25 Feb 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 12390 | Submission Open
Keywords: smart agriculture; unmanned farms; intelligent farm machinery; automatic navigation; precision operation; unmanned farm; information technology; agricultural Internet of Things; smart management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture—2nd Edition
edited by and
submission deadline 25 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2691 | Submission Open
Keywords: irrigation; cropping pattern; water-land-food nexus; conservation and remediation; agricultural drought analysis; climate change; environment and ecology effect; simulation and optimization modeling; management and assessment; policies analysis; decision support system
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Use and Irrigation)
The Interaction between the Type of Fertilizer and Soil Carbon Cycling
edited by and Longlong Xia
submission deadline 25 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2502 | Submission Open
Keywords: fertilizer types; soil carbon; carbon sequestration and carbon stimulation; agricultural production
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Plant Nutrition)
Agricultural Innovation in Sustainable and Organic Vegetable Crops Production
edited by Jose Magno Queiroz Luz and
submission deadline 25 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 919 | Submission Open
Keywords: vegetables; breeding; organic; sustainable farming; genetic improvement; cultivation; vegetable nutrition
(This special issue belongs to the Section Horticultural and Floricultural Crops)
Data-Driven Agriculture: Remote Sensing and Machine Learning for Sustainable Farming Practices—2nd Edition submission deadline 25 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 168 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; machine learning; sustainable agriculture; digital agriculture; precision irrigation; crop monitoring; pest and disease detection; water resource management; soil and nutrient assessment; redictive modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
Endophytes Improve Plant Immunity under Biotic and Abiotic Stress
edited by , and Xiaoli Chang
submission deadline 26 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 345 | Submission Open
Keywords: endophytes; community characteristics; functions; secondary metabolism; plant epigenetics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant-Crop Biology and Biochemistry)
Sustainable Agriculture: Plant Protection and Crop Production submission deadline 27 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1316 | Submission Open
Keywords: agroecology; integrated pest management; biological control of plant disease; crop protection; soil health; plant health; biofertilizers and biocontrol; organic amendment; cover crops; minimum tillage
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pest and Disease Management)
Research Status, Progress, and Applications of Agricultural Robot and Agriculture 4.0 Technologies in Field Operation—Volume II submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13781 | Submission Open
Keywords: robotics for field and specialty crops; agricultural automation; machine vision; deep learning; machine learning; advanced in-field sensing and decision support systems; swarm robotics; nanorobotics; smart sensors; precision agriculture; digital agriculture; agriculture 4.0; instrumentation; big data; cybernetics; SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping); ICT applications; IoT in agriculture
(This special issue belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
Advances in the Industrial Crops
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 11912 | Submission Open
Keywords: industrial crops; yield; quality; cultivation; methods; molecular breeding; abiotic stress; salinity; drought; heat
(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Breeding and Genetics)
Optimal Water Management and Sustainability in Irrigated Agriculture—2nd Edition submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 11728 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable water management and SDGs; water and energy saving; water scarcity and climate change; crop water requirements and irrigation scheduling; irrigation methods and systems— irrigation efficiency; crop water productivity; optimal irrigation networks— modern optimization methods; smart irrigation and IoT
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Use and Irrigation)
Managing the Yield and Nutritive Value of Forage and Biomass Crops
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9096 | Submission Open
Keywords: forage nutritive value; forages management; soil-plant interaction; environmental impact; soil health
(This special issue belongs to the Section Grassland and Pasture Science)
Spatially-Based Services and Applications in Precision Farming: From Data to Field Information submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8759 | Submission Open
Keywords: services; satellite imagery; copernicus; crop monitoring; artificial intelligence; sensor networks; multispectral imagery; digital photogrammetry
(This special issue belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
Irrigation Schedules Based on Plants, Soil and Meteorological Indicators
edited by Xiaosen Wang and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5275 | Submission Open
Keywords: irrigation schedule; water use efficiency; irrigation indicator; intelligent and precision irrigation; irrigation model; irrigation technology; crop water requirement
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Use and Irrigation)
Soil Evolution, Management, and Sustainable Utilization submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4384 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil evolution; soil management; sustainable utilization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Plant Nutrition)
Ecology and Management of Weeds in Different Situations submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3503 | Submission Open
Keywords: weed ecology; seed biology; chemical control; non-chemical control; cultural control; biotechnological approaches
(This special issue belongs to the Section Weed Science and Weed Management)
Soil and Water Management and Conservation in Regenerative Agriculture
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2000 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable agriculture; conservation agriculture; organic agriculture; soil health; soil water; soil amendments; irrigation and water management; agrohydrology; cover crops and crop rotation; conservation tillage; soil organic matter; carbon sequestration; agrobiodiversity; agroecology; agroforestry; climate-smart agriculture
(This special issue belongs to the Section Farming Sustainability)
Rice Cultivation and Physiology
edited by Guang Chu, Kai Yu and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1834 | Submission Open
Keywords: rice; cultivation; physiology; grain yield; nitrogen use efficiency; water use efficiency; soil quality
(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant-Crop Biology and Biochemistry)
Smart Farming Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture—2nd Edition submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1725 | Submission Open
Keywords: smart farming technologies; precision agriculture; digitalization; sensors; internet of things; decision support systems; indicators; sustainable agriculture and agri-food value chains; sustainability assessment; sustainability impacts
(This special issue belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
Exploring Mechanisms and Technologies for Enhancing Nitrogen Efficiency in Maize Production
edited by Zheng Liu and Guohua Mi
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1712 | Submission Open
Keywords: maize; nitrogen uptake; nitrogen utilization; nitrogen use efficiency; nitrogen fate; crop– soil system; crop management; crop model
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Plant Nutrition)
Site-Specific Weed Management (SSWM): Integrating Weed Population Dynamics with Information-Communications Technologies (ICTs)
edited by , Roberto Benech-Arnold and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1266 | Submission Open
Keywords: weed bioecology; population dynamics; precision agriculture; remote sensing; proximal sensing; artificial intelligence; decision support systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Weed Science and Weed Management)
Crop Plants: Losses and Benefits Caused by Soil Fungi submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1202 | Submission Open
Keywords: crop plants; soil fungi; plant– soil fungi interactions; soil-borne pathogens of crop plants; soil-borne fungi beneficial to crop plants; mycorrhiza; plant growth; plant health
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil and Plant Nutrition)
The Effects of Irrigation and Fertilization Management on Cropping Systems—2nd Edition
edited by and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1024 | Submission Open
Keywords: irrigation management; fertilization; cropping system; yield and quality; water productivity; nitrogen use efficiency; crop model
(This special issue belongs to the Section Innovative Cropping Systems)
Innovations in Assessing G×E×M Interactions: Advancing Agronomy and Modeling Strategies for Sustainable Crop Production submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 927 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate-smart agriculture; agronomy; G× E× M interactions; nutrient utilization and losses; modeling strategies; precision agriculture; machine learning; resource optimization; decision support; environmental resilience
(This special issue belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
Application of In Vitro Technology to Improving the Yield and Quality of Common and Alternative Crops
edited by Wojciech Litwinczuk
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 480 | Submission Open
Keywords: micropropagation; plant breeding; germplasm storage; somaclonal variation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Breeding and Genetics)
Physiological Traits of Plants Under Irrigation
edited by Sidnei Deuner, and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 419 | Submission Open
Keywords: plant production; yield; drought; flooding; irrigation systems; water use efficiency; climate change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water Use and Irrigation)
Maize Germplasm Improvement and Innovation
edited by Hongjun Yong
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 339 | Submission Open
Keywords: maize; germplasm improvement; innovation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Crop Breeding and Genetics)
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