Guest Editors
Dr. Miroslava Rakocevic
Email: mima.rakocevic61@gmail.com
Affiliation: Plant Physiology Department, LMGV, Agricultural Science and Technology Center, State University of North Fluminense, Campos dos Goytacazes, 28013-602, Brazil
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Research Interests: dioecy, climate change, functional-structural plant modeling, plant biology, plant ecology, plant physiology
Dr. Weverton Pereira Rodrigues
Email: weverton.rodrigues@uemasul.edu.br
Affiliation: Center of Agricultural, Natural and Literary Sciences, State University of the Tocantina Region of Maranhão-UEMASUL, Estreito, 65975-000, Brazil
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Research Interests: climate change, plant biology, plant biotechnology, plant breeding, plant genetics, plant physiology
Summary
This Special Issue aims to gather original research, reviews, and opinion articles focused on photosynthetic processes, photosynthetic efficiency, and their impacts on agricultural productivity, sustainability, and climate resilience. It will address structural and functional relationships among thylakoid membrane protein complexes and their roles in determining productivity, stress resistance, and photoprotective mechanisms in plants. Topics include environmental limitations to photosynthesis, such as excessive light energy, UV radiation, CO2 concentration, drought, temperature variability, nutrient availability (especially nitrogen), and their consequences on biomass production of crops, horticultural, forest, and wild species. Studies on photoprotective functions of photosystem II and photosystem I, antenna complex regulation, chloroplast retrograde signaling, and plant immunity are especially welcome. Additionally, this issue will consider research advancing RuBisCO efficiency, carbon capture, reduction of photorespiration, optimization of light absorption, and mitigation of oxidative damage. We also encourage contributions on integrative approaches combining genetic engineering, CRISPR/Cas gene editing, omics-based technologies, phenomics, plant-environment modeling, precision agriculture, and artificial intelligence. The Special Issue welcomes studies addressing photosynthetic responses to environmental constraints and adaptation mechanisms at whole-plant, organ, cellular, biochemical pathway, and molecular levels, including modeling approaches and strategies to improve crop productivity under climate change scenarios.
Keywords
biomass allocation, crop yield, CRISPR, light stress, photosynthetic efficiency, photoprotection, plant resilience, RuBisCO
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