Adapting Edible and Medicinal Plants to Abiotic Stress in a Changing Climate

Dear Colleagues,

Agricultural production is vulnerable to abiotic stress, such as droughts, flooding, and heat events, which have far-reaching implications for food nutrition and security. The injury of abiotic stress on food quality and safety is likely to be amplified by climate change. The growing understanding of the link between food and health has increased consumer demand for healthy and functional foods. Edible plants with medicinal properties play an increasingly important role in food and pharmaceutical industries for their functions in human health since they are high in various bioactive substances. However, acknowledgment of the response and adaptation of edible and medicinal plants to abiotic stress is limited. Understanding the effects of abiotic stress on edible and medicinal plants is essential for the quality and security of functional foods and people's health.

To pursue the development of functional foods and pharmaceutical products using edible and medicinal plants under the current and future global climate, we invite you to contribute to this Special Issue on “Adapting Edible and Medicinal Plants to Abiotic Stress in a Changing Climate”. We welcome conceptual/empirical research articles, comprehensive reviews, and case studies grounded in scientific research methods and innovative data analyses. The papers selected for this Special Issue will be subject to a rigorous peer-review procedure with the aim of the rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. The main topics of research may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Edible and medicinal plants;
• Global climate change;
• Abiotic stress;
• Tolerance mechanisms;
• Functional cereals;
• Chemical constituents;
• Nutritional quality;
• Pharmacologically active compounds;
• Nutritional composition;
• Health benefits.

Dr. Chao Wu
Guest Editor

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• edible and medicinal plants
• global climate change
• abiotic stress
• tolerance mechanisms
• functional cereals
• chemical constituents
• nutritional quality
• pharmacologically active compounds
• nutritional composition
• health benefits