Ozone Pollution Influence on Crops Biology and Yield
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Innovative Cropping Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 356
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Interests: abiotic stress in plants; biological aspects of environmental change, including climate changes; applied plant sciences and soil biology; ecotoxicology, biohazards and biosafety; industrial biosciences
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Dear Colleagues,
Despite the measures taken on a global scale since several years to reduce the emission of its precursors in the atmosphere, the partial pressure of tropospheric (i.e., surface) ozone (O3) is continuing to increase, both in developed countries and even moreso in developing ones. As such, the concern surrounding ozone pollution should be high, especially when taking into account its contribution to radiative forcing in the atmosphere.
By studying the effects of surface ozone on plants, researchers soon became aware that not all evil comes to harm: indeed, being able to evoke several defense reactions, ozone can be regarded not only as an important airborne pollutant, but also as an abiotic elicitor of general defense responses. Therefore, ozone has been widely used as a precise, reproducible, powerful and finely-tuneable experimental tool to investigate fundamental mechanisms used by plants to react to adverse environmental conditions.
The present Special Issue aims at hosting relevant, high-quality papers dealing with the effects of photochemical air pollution on the biology of crops, including food crops, floriculture, fruit trees, and industrial crops, from the molecular, biochemical, physiological and agronomical points of view. Room will be also available for papers dealing with neglected and underutilized crops or crop wild relatives. Papers dealing with ozone stress in combination with other sources of biotic or abiotic stress will be mostly welcome, and the same will apply for studies concerning research topics given scanty attention so far, such as the interaction between the presence of excess O3 in the troposphere and the chemical and biochemical processes occurring in the soil.
Dr. Maurizio Badiani
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- surface ozone
- crops
- climate changes
- biotic stress
- abiotic stress
- cross induction
- cross protection
