Plant Physiology Reports - Special Issue (October- December, 2021): “Plant Adaptations to Nutrient Stress”
Final date of submission of articles – 15th August, 2021
Scope of the issue
The special issue focussed on PLANT ADAPTATIONS TO NUTRIENT STRESS welcomes original research articles, reviews, opinions, short communications and perspectives on the physiological and molecular responses and adaptations of crops to nutrient stress. Novel and holistic studies that advances our understanding on crops response to nutrient deficiencies as well as toxicity, are encouraged to submit their work to publish in special issue. Also, research on bio-fortification in crops with an aim to enhance nutrient intake of poor and under-nourished population, is also in the scope of this issue. Classical physiological techniques including but not limited to isotope labelling, uptake kinetic studies and fertiliser experiments supplemented with cutting edge molecular biology tools to understand the crop responses to varying nutrient levels in controlled conditions as well as field studies, will be preferred.
Interested team leads who would like to contribute a focused review or opinion article to this special issue are encouraged to contact renu_pphy@iari.res.in. All review and opinion articles will be approved and commissioned by the special issue editorial committee.
Final date of submission of articles – August 15, 2021
Special issue publication date – November 30, 2021
Guest Editors
Dr. Renu Pandey Principal Scientist, Division of Plant Physiology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, INDIA, Email: renu_pphy@iari.res.in (this opens in a new tab); renu_iari@rediffmail.com
Dr. Pandey’s Mineral Nutrition Lab focuses primarily on exploring the physiological and molecular mechanisms to identify donors and traits for nitrogen and phosphorus use efficiency in wheat, soybean and green gram. The studies on nutrient use efficiency has been incorporated with climate change factors like elevated CO2, temperature and drought stress. Her group has initiated work on association studies to identify the QTLs/genes for nutrient use efficiency in wheat and rice with field phenotyping. She has guided/guiding 16 M.Sc./Ph.D. students and has published more than 70 research articles and book chapters in over 18 years. She has completed/ongoing 19 national and international projects as Principal Investigator/Co-Investigator. Dr. Pandey has been awarded the IMPHOS-FAI Gold Medal for her contributions in role of phosphorus in improving yield and quality of crops.
Dr. Krishnapriya Vengavasi Scientist, ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, INDIA, Email: k.vengavasi@icar.gov.in (this opens in a new tab); krishnapriya19@gmail.com
Dr. Vengavasi has 10 years of research experience in the field of plant physiology with specialization in mineral nutrition and root studies. She has contributed to the investigation of physiological and molecular aspects of phosphorus use efficiency in soybean, green gram and wheat. At present, she is working on deciphering the physiological basis of nutrient use efficiency in sugarcane including characterisation of its root system traits. She is also associated with research programmes for plant architectural traits, salinity, drought and waterlogging tolerance in sugarcane.
Prof. Malcolm Hawkesford Head, Plant Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, UK, Email: malcolm.hawkesford@rothamsted.ac.uk (this opens in a new tab)
Professor Malcolm Hawkesford is head of the Plant Science Department at Rothamsted Research and is the leader of the Rothamsted component of and co-leader of the UK national Designing Future Wheat programme. He is also the Honorary Professor in Plant Sciences in the School of Biosciences at University of Nottingham. He has published >150 papers on the biochemistry and molecular biology of wheat nutrition and performance, with an H-index >50. He specializes in utilizing genomic approaches combined with field scale experimentation to dissect traits associated with efficient use of fertilizers and wheat yield and quality performance. He leads current developments in high throughput field phenotyping (ground-based robotic system and drones) and image analytics at Rothamsted.
Submission Guidelines
Original Research Articles
Original research articles can be submitted following the standard author guidelines for Plant Physiology Reports https://www.springer.com/journal/40502/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab). However, during your submission, at the top of the cover letter indicate that the submission is to be considered for the special issue “Plant Adaptations to Nutrient Stress”.
Review Articles
All review articles are by invitation only
The editors of the special issue are looking for these criteria before a formal invitation to submit is extended
1. The review should not be a mere compilation of information but should provide sound interpretations, opinions and include future directions of nutrient stress research
2. Maximum word limit for the body (excluding table or figure legends, acknowledgements and references) is 5000
3. Ideally taking one nutrient or nutrient combined with other stress related to growth and nutrient efficiency and going into the depth of related aspects will be looked into favourably compared to taking a shallow approach and touching on very many topics
4. The review should have at least one or two overarching figures that summarizes the scope of the review. It has to be original and innovative
5. Very lengthy tables that lists all available literature etc. are discouraged
6. At least three recent publications from you or your lab that demonstrates previous track record in nutrient stress or related research
Kindly send a brief summary or key highlights on what you wish to focus. The committee will discuss, and if your idea receives support from the committee, you will be invited to contribute.