Special Issue on Sustainable Agriculture under Abiotic and Biotic Stress

Abiotic and biotic stress combinations.

Environmental stress conditions such as drought, heat, salinity, cold, or pathogen infection can have a devastating impact on plant growth and yield under field conditions. Nevertheless, the effects of these stresses on plants are typically being studied under controlled growth conditions in the laboratory. The field environment is very different from the controlled conditions used in laborator...

Breeding for abiotic stresses for sustainable agriculture.

Using cereal crops as examples, we review the breeding for tolerance to the abiotic stresses of low nitrogen, drought, salinity and aluminium toxicity. All are already important abiotic stress factors that cause large and widespread yield reductions. Drought will increase in importance with climate change, the area of irrigated land that is salinized continues to increase, and the cost of inorg...

Introduction Special Issue on “ Sustainable Urban Design ”

Urbanization is one of the great challenges of our time and unchecked haphazard urbanization is a serious threat both to the environment and social and economic balance. In order to meet global sustainability targets, rapid urban growth must be channelled into environmentally friendly, sustainable and liveable urban environments. Thus, this special issue focuses on sustainable urban design whic...

Biotic/Abiotic Stress-Driven Alzheimer's Disease

Special issue on "Optimization models in environment and sustainable development"

Today, sustainable management of the environment and its resources is an issue of vital importance in our contemporary societies and especially in developed societies. The scarcity of resources may well account for this fact. The importance of this problem underlies the necessity for adapting measures aiming at its solution. Many research papers and scientific conferences have been devoted to t...