Pollution and Climate Change Impacts on Legume Plants

Dear Colleagues,

The supply of safe and nutritious food for the growing human population is one of the most important concerns worldwide. The problem might aggravate with time due to global climate change, which adversely affects crop production. Thus, there is an urgent need for introduction of new crop cultivars, which could withstand the unfavorable environmental conditions and simultaneously provide sufficient nutrients for human diet.

Legumes are frequently recognized as candidate crops meeting the abovementioned criteria – they constitute good source of proteins, unsaturated fatty acids and bioactive secondary metabolites e.g. flavonoids and isoflavonoids. Importantly, their cultivation leaves smaller ecological imprint than protein acquisition from meat production. In addition, cultivation of legume plants contributes to the improvement of soil quality through, among other, supply of nitrogen and associated diminished use of fertilizers and increase in the soil biodiversity.

The aim of present Special Issue is highlighting the importance of legume plants in agriculture, in particularly in relation to the adverse environmental conditions including climate change and soil contamination.

Dr. Jagna Chmielowska-Bąk
Dr. Vy Nguyen
Guest Editors

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