Mitigation of Calcium-Related Disorders in Soilless Production Systems

In the current scenario of human-driven climate change, extreme weather events will likely affect agricultural production worldwide. Soilless systems have recently arisen as a solution to optimize use natural resources, such water and soil, hence contribute reducing environmental impact agriculture. However, nutritional imbalance due adverse factors, drought, high temperatures, salinity, might produce calcium-related physiological disorders during plant growth, blossom-end rot (BER) in fruits tipburn (TB) leaves, which are serious problem crop production. Here, we discuss different agronomic, physiological, genetic factors that favor induction BER tomato TB lettuce anticipate an integration breeding technological approaches alleviate soilless systems.