Stress Biology - Call for Papers --- Special Issue "Responses of horticultural crops to stress factors: advances and challenges"

Horticultural crops are an important part of agriculture for ensuring global food security. However, the production of horticultural crops is frequently affected by abiotic stress, such as extreme temperature, drought, salinity, heavy metals and biotic stress, such as diseases and pests, which subsequently results in huge yield losses and reduced quality of products. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms underlying the responses of horticultural crops to stress factors could help in developing novel strategies to cope with these abiotic or biotic stresses.

Great progress has been achieved in the studies of responses of horticultural crops to both abiotic and biotic stresses over the past decades. Further studies are still needed to help better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the interactions of horticultural crops with these abiotic and biotic stresses.

This special issue aims to publish high-quality studies that address mechanisms underlying the responses of horticultural crops to both abiotic and biotic stresses at all levels, including but not limited to:

1. Responses of horticultural crops to abiotic stress;
2. Responses of horticultural crops to pathogens, particularly bacteria, fungi and viruses;
3. Novel biotechnological strategies to improve resistance/tolerance of horticultural crops to abiotic and biotic stress.

Submissions include original research papers, reviews and short communications. Publication fee will be waived for all the accepted articles. The journal follows the peer review policy (this opens in a new tab) of Stress Biology for all the special issue submissions.

Guest editor: Dr. Tong Chen (chentong@ibcas.ac.cn), Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Co-guest editors: 

Dr. Yuhua Wang (wangyuhua@njau.edu.cn), Nanjing Agricultural University, China;

Dr. Xiaohua Wang (wangxh@ibcas.ac.cn), Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Submission deadline: 30 August 2024