Study of Primary Metabolism of Plants
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Farming Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2022) | Viewed by 2605
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant physiology; plant stress physiology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Securing resources for the human population depends on the state of agriculture and its ability to stably produce enough food. Given the enormous burden the environment should be a preference for activities necessary for sustainable security and a dignified existence people. In addition to fertility resources and tillage technologies, there is a need to develop crop varieties with high yield potential that are also adaptable to stressors. The aim of breeding should be to obtain tolerant or resistant varieties with high harvest index (HI).
The harvest index is related to changes in photosynthesis, which is affected not only by environmental conditions, but also by breeding, although so far the breeding activity has not completely improved the stand’s photosynthetic efficiency. In this respect, there is room for improving the performance of photosynthesis in relation to, for example, increasing CO2 concentrations. Another way to increase HI is to influence the transport of assimilates and the plant’s ability to utilize them. This Special Issue will focus on the "Study of Primary Metabolism of Plants". We welcome new research, reviews, and opinions on all related topics, including biochemistry, plant anatomy, breeding, genetics and crop improvement, phenotyping, changes in primary plant metabolism due to stressors, modeling, yield generation, assimilation, metabolism, and proteomics.
Dr. František Hnilička
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- photosynthesis
- cereals
- sink
- source
- transport of assimilates
- photosynthetic apparatus of plants
