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Agronomic Strategies and Crop Resilience in the Face of Climate Change

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Air, Climate Change and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 18 June 2024 | Viewed by 1953

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Dr. Prashant Kaushik

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Department of Vegetable Science, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar 125004, India
Interests: plant biology; climate change; plant stress; crop wild relatives; crop modelling; agronomy; genomics; priming; rationing; salinity; transgenics; stability analysis; growth regulators
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Dear Colleagues,

With our planet facing the escalating impacts of climate change, the worldwide agricultural sector finds itself in the midst of unprecedented challenges. These challenges, significant in magnitude, threaten the pillars of global food security and sustainable development. In response to these pressing issues, we are excited to announce the launch of a new Special Issue, titled "Agronomic Strategies and Crop Resilience in the Face of Climate Change". This Special Issue aims to highlight innovative research that investigates and showcases forward-thinking agronomic strategies. The central goal of these strategies is to improve crop resilience amidst the shifting climatic conditions, a step that is essential in transitioning towards more robust and sustainable agricultural systems.

The growing intensity of climate change's adverse effects underscores the need for agronomy and crop research to devise and implement novel strategies to strengthen crop resilience against environmental stressors. This Special Issue aims to serve as a conduit for sharing cutting-edge research in this field. We hope to stimulate insightful discussions on a broad range of topics, from sustainable agricultural practices and genetic modifications for climate resilience, to soil health management in the context of climate change, and the application of advanced technologies in crop research.

This Special Issue will delve into the complex interplay between agronomic practices, crop resilience, and climate change, providing deep insights into new frontiers of research and practice. Our ambition is to foster a multidisciplinary dialogue that bridges the gap between theory and practice, with the potential to influence policies and decision-making processes at various levels.

We warmly invite submissions of original research articles and thorough review articles. Potential research areas of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  1. Genetic modifications for climate resilience: This involves exploring the genetic makeup of crop resilience and the potential of genetic modifications to enhance resilience under various climatic conditions.
  2. Advancements in crop nutrition: This includes investigating innovative approaches to crop nutrition that bolster crop health and productivity under stress conditions induced by climate change.
  3. Sustainable farming practices: This involves examining sustainable farming practices that contribute to crop resilience, such as crop rotation, intercropping, conservation agriculture, and organic farming.
  4. Soil health in the context of climate change: This includes studying the impact of climate change on soil health and the potential of soil management practices to enhance crop resilience.
  5. Innovative technologies in crop research: This involves investigating the role of advanced technologies, such as remote sensing, precision agriculture, and machine learning, in enhancing crop resilience and sustainability under climate change.

This Special Issue follows the policies of Sustainability MDPI concerning submission, publication, the review process, etc. We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions to this pressing and relevant topic.

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Prashant Kaushik
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • crop resilience
  • climate change
  • agronomic strategies
  • sustainable farming
  • soil health
  • crop nutrition
  • genetic modifications
  • innovative technologies

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Ammonia Volatilization from Pig Slurries in a Semiarid Agricultural Rainfed Area
by Diana E. Jiménez-de-Santiago, Jonatan Ovejero, Montserrat Antúnez and Angela D. Bosch-Serra
Sustainability 2024, 16(1), 238; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su16010238 - 27 Dec 2023
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Slurries are one of the main NH3 emission sources. Nitrogen losses impact air quality, and they constrain the sustainability of farming activities. In a rainfed Mediterranean agricultural system, the aim was to quantify NH3 emissions at a time when plants do [...] Read more.
Slurries are one of the main NH3 emission sources. Nitrogen losses impact air quality, and they constrain the sustainability of farming activities. In a rainfed Mediterranean agricultural system, the aim was to quantify NH3 emissions at a time when plants do not yet cover the soil surface and according to fertilization practices. One treatment was slurry from fattening pigs (PSF) applied before cereal sowing and incorporated into the soil; two treatments were PSF or from sows (PSS) applied at the cereal tillering stage (topdressing); and two more treatments received slurries twice, before sowing and as topdressing. Ammonia emissions were quantified with semi-static chambers during 145 h (before sowing) and 576 h (at cereal tillering) after slurry application. Before sowing, tillage after slurry application controlled NH3-N emissions, but they accounted for 14% of the total NH4-N applied. At tillering, average NH3-N emissions also accounted for ca. 14% of total NH4-N applied as PSF or PSS, respectively. Slurry dry matter from 84 kg m−3 (PSS) up to 127 kg m−3 (PSF), combined with low soil moisture content (below 30% of water holding capacity) at application time, helped in NH3 emission control. Slurry applications before sowing did not enhance later NH3-N emissions at topdressing. Full article
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Estimation of the Impact of Climate Change on Spinach Cultivation Areas in Türkiye
by Huzur Deveci
Sustainability 2023, 15(21), 15395; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su152115395 - 28 Oct 2023
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Climate change is one of the most important problems that needs to be dealt with in Türkiye and worldwide. One of the sectors that will be most affected by climate change is the agriculture sector. For this reason, it is very important to [...] Read more.
Climate change is one of the most important problems that needs to be dealt with in Türkiye and worldwide. One of the sectors that will be most affected by climate change is the agriculture sector. For this reason, it is very important to adapt to changing climatic conditions, take the necessary precautions, and ensure sustainability in the agricultural sector today. The land suitability for spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) cultivation, a vegetable that is rich in nutrients, has never been investigated in Türkiye. Therefore, it is important to investigate the suitability of spinach cultivation areas in Türkiye in the case of possible climatic changes in future years. The most important original value of this research is that three separate climate change prediction models were used, as opposed to using only a single climate change prediction model, to determine the land suitability for spinach cultivation. The aim of this study is to determine the land suitability for spinach in line with possible climate change prediction models and scenarios in Türkiye and its evaluation by comparing it with the current model. To achieve this goal, HADGEM2_ES, CNRM_CM5, and MPI_ESM_LR climate models and RCP 4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios were used, and land suitability was determined and evaluated with the help of Ecocrop integrated into DIVA-GIS for spinach in Türkiye currently and in the 2050s. The results found that there will be decreases in suitable, very suitable, and excellent areas for spinach cultivation and increases in not-suited, very marginal, and marginal areas. Considering the possible temperature and precipitation changes, it has been observed that the areas in which spinach can be grown in Türkiye in the 2050s will be negatively affected by climate change due to the increasing temperature and decreasing precipitation in general, and solutions are proposed in this study to ensure sustainability. Full article
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