Guest Editors
Dr. Joanna Kocięcka
Email: joanna.kociecka@up.poznan.pl
Affiliation: Department of Land Improvement, Environmental Development and Spatial Management, Poznań University of Life Sciences, 60-649 Poznań, Poland
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Research Interests: irrigation engineering, water resources management, subirrigation, plant's water needs, drainage systems, water retention, crop adaptation to climate change, hydraulic and water structures
Dr. Barbara Kęsicka
Email: barbara.kesicka@up.poznan.pl
Affiliation: Department of Land Improvement, Environmental Development and Spatial Management, Poznań University of Life Sciences, 60-649 Poznań, Poland
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Research Interests: environmental engineering, water science, irrigation and water management, controlled drainage, water quality, groundwater
Summary
This special issue explores the underlying physiological and molecular mechanisms by which plants respond to and are optimized by advanced irrigation and fertilization practices. We focus on how precision water management (e.g., deficit irrigation) and targeted nutrient application (e.g., micronutrients like zinc, organic amendments like vermicompost) interact to regulate plant stress responses, nutrient uptake and assimilation, photosynthetic efficiency, and source-sink dynamics.
The collection highlights studies that employ omics technologies, advanced phenotyping, and molecular biology tools to decipher how plants adapt to the coupled variations in water and nutrient availability under changing climates. A key emphasis is placed on the crosstalk between abiotic stress signaling pathways and nutrient sensing networks, and how biostimulants prime these responses.
The main topics include but are not limited to:
• Molecular and physiological bases of water-use efficiency under precision irrigation.
• Plant nutrient sensing and signaling in response to tailored fertilization regimes (e.g., S, Zn).
• Mechanisms of biostimulant action (e.g., vermicompost) on plant stress resilience and nutrient metabolism.
• Crosstalk in air–plant–soil–water continuum at the physiological and molecular level.
• Genetic and phenotypic variation in plant responses to interactive water-nutrient stresses.
• "Omics" insights (genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics) into plant adaptation under managed field conditions.
Keywords
crop yield, innovative irrigation, fertilization strategies, vermicompost, water stress indices, sustainable agriculture, resource efficiency
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