Guest Editors
Dr. M. Iqbal R. Khan
Email: iqbal.khan@jamiahamdard.ac.in
Affiliation: Department of Botany, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India
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Research Interests: abiotic stress tolerance, phytohormones, plant-soil interactions, omics
Dr. Noushina Iqbal
Email: noushinaiqbal@jamiahamdard.ac.in
Affiliation: Department of Botany, school of chemical and life sciences, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India
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Research Interests: phytohormones, nutrients, abiotic stress, PGPR
Summary
Plant–soil interaction is an emerging field that aims to comprehend the complex relationships between plant roots, soil properties, and associated microbial communities, highlighting their impact on ecosystem health, agricultural sustainability, and soil management practices. It represents a cornerstone of terrestrial ecosystem functioning, linking aboveground and belowground processes in ways that shape plant growth, soil fertility, and environmental resilience. These interactions govern a complex network involving roots, microorganisms, and nutrient cycling, which underpin sustainable agriculture and global food security.
However, the intensification of agriculture, soil degradation, and changing climate conditions pose significant challenges to maintaining productive and resilient plant-soil systems. Understanding how plants interact with a diverse soil microbiome, respond to environmental stressors, and contribute to nutrient turnover has become increasingly important in developing sustainable management strategies. Climate change, intensive agriculture, and soil degradation pose growing challenges. Under changing environmental conditions, the soil health is deteriorating with nutrient deprivation, salt and heavy metal accumulation, drought, and flood, that poses serious implications on plant growth and productivity. The issue focuses on the growing need to restore plants' growth and productivity under changing soil conditions for resilient agriculture, and environmental restoration.
This special issue aims to highlight cutting-edge research that advances knowledge of plant-soil interactions at molecular, physiological, and ecosystem levels, encompassing topics such as nutrient management, stress adaptation, and innovative approaches for illustrating plant-soil interactions.
Keywords
climate change, plant tolerance, soil, sustainable agriculture
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