Rapid population growth and significant climatic change pose a threat to global food security. Crop productivity is restricted by abiotic stresses, which lead to numerous disruptions in plant growth and development.  Drought, high soil salinity, heat, cold, oxidative stress, and heavy metal toxicity are common adverse environmental conditions that affect and limit crop productivity around the world. These stresses could alter crop growth and development by influencing biochemical, physiological, and molecular processes, resulting in significant productivity loss. Abiotic stress also alters the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum, resulting in lower yields in crops.

Despite crops' great productivity, conventional agricultural techniques should not be used to encourage plant stress tolerance because of their detrimental and often unknown effects on the environment and human health. The development of highly profitable genotypes with a wide range of tolerance, specialized to respond to climate variations and novel, environmentally friendly alternatives are now of utmost importance for the production of human and animal food.

The following subjects for a new special issue were developed to promote research and our understanding of the technology of stress-resistance and high-yield in crops. We warmly welcome submissions of full articles, short communications, reviews, mini-reviews, and perspectives that are pertinent to these issues. Please get in touch with us if your subject is pertinent but not covered here.

  ●   The effect of abiotic stress (drought, heat, cold, salinity) on and growth rates of crops

  ●   Morpho-anatomical changes that occur in stressful environments

  ●  Improving crop resource utilization efficiency under stressful environments

  ●   Plant biomass productivity under abiotic stress

  ●   Agronomic management practices under stressful environments

  ●  Novel biotechnological approaches and green technologies that have been implemented in abiotic stress

Guest Editor

Dr. Jiban Shrestha, Nepal Agricultural Research Council, Nepal

Submission Deadline

The deadline for manuscript submissions is 25 April 2024. However, we can accommodate extensions on a case-by-case basis. All papers will be published as open access articles upon acceptance.

Submission Instructions

Please submit the full manuscript to Technology in Agronomy via our Online Submission System. All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors for submission of manuscripts is available on the For Authors page.

Additionally, please choose the topic of this Special Issue when submitting, and mention it in your cover letter. For further inquiries, please contact Guest Editor:

Jiban Shrestha (jibshrestha@gmail.com)