Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Model and Crop Plants: From Lab to Field
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2022) | Viewed by 3893
Special Issue Editors
Interests: physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology of plant nutrition with particular focus on nitrate uptake, assimilation, translocation and remobilization; nitrogen use efficiency evaluation in herbaceous and woody crops at transcriptomics and metabolomics level; morpho-physiological and molecular mechanisms of plants in response to allelochemicals, humic substances, biowaste and biostimulants application
Interests: plant genetics and breeding; molecular-assisted selection (MAS); vegetable crops (mainly tomato and eggplant); abiotic stress; nitrogen use efficiency (NUE); genetic structure of plant biodiversity; genomics; transcriptomics; genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS)
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Interests: root biology mainly focused on the relationships between root form and function (nutrient acquisition and metabolism, exudation process, microbial interaction); plant adaptation in abiotic-stressed environments (nutrient deficiency, drought and heat stress, in single and combined form); root morpho-physiological and molecular mechanisms in response to allelochemicals, biowaste and biostimulants application
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nitrogen (N) availability is one of the major factors limiting plant growth and productivity, being a structural component of amino acids, nucleic acids, and other N-containing biomolecules. To maintain high crop yields for meeting global food demands in intensive agriculture, N fertilizers have been massively applied with a negative impact on the environment and human health. In limited N fertilizer cropping systems, improving the nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) and identifying high-NUE genotypes are important goals for maintaining a high sustainable yield. NUE is a complex multigenic trait, which encompasses the plant’s efficiency to absorb (NUpE component), assimilate, transport, and remobilize the available N from the soil (NUtE component). It is governed by interacting genetic and environmental (GxE) factors. NUE improvement might permit solving the trade-off between productivity and environmental impacts. This Special Issue aims to publish the most recent discoveries on phenotyping, mapping quantitative trait loci (QTLs), and selecting candidate genes for NUE improvement in model and crop plants.
Prof. Dr. Maria Rosa Abenavoli
Prof. Dr. Francesco Sunseri
Prof. Dr. Agostino Sorgonà
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- NUE index
- NUpE
- NUtE
- nitrogen management
- N uptake, assimilation, and remoblization
- NUE in model and crop plants
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