Agronomy MDPI

17/12/2025

🚩 Review Article Recommendation
Review of the Underutilized Indigenous Portulacaria afra (Spekboom) as a Sustainable Edible Food Source
🔸Link: https://brnw.ch/21wYq47
📖Learn more: https://brnw.ch/21wYq46

Southern Africa faces numerous challenges, such as increasing biodiversity loss and environmental degradation. Additionally, poor and vulnerable communities suffer from undernourishment and are food insecure. Therefore, Southern Africa must adopt inclusive, sustainable food systems that support food...

16/12/2025

Genetic research and breeding innovations are essential for improving the yield, quality, and resilience of sugar crops such as sugarcane and sugar beet.

Agronomy MDPI is featuring the Special Issue “Advancements in Genetic Research and Breeding of Sugar Crops,” edited by Dr. Xiping Yang (Guangxi University, China).

Manuscript submission deadline: 31 December 2025.

A recent paper has already been published within this Special Issue: “Time-Course Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Dynamic Nitrogen Response Mechanisms and Key Regulatory Networks in Sugarcane.”

Check the Special Issue page: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/agronomy/special_issues/604D351139

Read the published paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/15/9/2164

Nitrogen is an essential mineral nutrient for plant growth and development.

16/12/2025

Soil carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions play a critical role in agricultural sustainability and climate change mitigation. Advances in soil management, measurement technologies, and modeling approaches continue to improve our understanding of soil carbon dynamics and emission pathways.

Agronomy MDPI is featuring a Special Issue titled “Soil Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Emissions.”

Guest Editors: Dr. Chenghsien Lin and Prof. Dr. Fo-Ting Shen (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan).

📅 Manuscript submission deadline: 28 March 2026

Researchers working on soil carbon dynamics, GHG fluxes, and sustainable agricultural systems are encouraged to explore this Special Issue.

For further details, please check the Special Issue page: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/agronomy/special_issues/3NSJ09387G

16/12/2025

How does pesticide use affect soil health - and what effective counterplans can mitigate these impacts?

We invite submissions to the Special Issue “Pesticide Impact on Soil Health with Effective Counterplans” in Agronomy MDPI, focusing on pesticide–soil interactions and sustainable solutions for agriculture. Topics include biopesticides, soil bioremediation, integrated pest management (IPM), soil health assessment tools, and policy perspectives.

🗓 Submission deadline: 30 April 2026
Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Maurice Millet, Dr. Dani Khoury

Learn more:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/agronomy/special_issues/W8HT9421S2

16/12/2025

Explore the highly cited paper of Agronomy!

Engineering Synthetic Communities: Diversity and Applications in Soil for Plant Resilience

by Arneeb Tariq,Shengzhi Guo,Fozia Farhat and Xihui Shen

Plants host a complex but taxonomically assembled set of microbes in their natural environment which confer several benefits to the host plant including stress resilience, nutrient acquisition and increased productivity. To understand and simplify the intricate interactions among these microbes, an ...

16/12/2025

Explore the highly cited paper of Agronomy!

for Sustainable Agriculture: Assessment of Benefits and Risks

by Mohammed Bouhadi,Qaiser Javed,Monika Jakubus,M’hammed Elkouali,Hassan Fougrach,Ayesha Ansar,Smiljana Goreta Ban,Dean Ban,David Heath and Marko Černe

Nanotechnology is rapidly emerging as a transformative force in agriculture, offering innovative solutions to support sustainable crop production. This review examines the interactions between nanoparticles (NPs) and plants, elucidating the underlying mechanisms that govern NP uptake, translocation,...

16/12/2025

Explore the highly cited paper of Agronomy!

Priming: Molecular and Physiological Mechanisms Underlying Biotic and Abiotic Stress Tolerance

by Bhupinder Singh Jatana,Sajjan Grover,Hari Ram andGurjinder Singh Baath

Seed priming is a state-of-the-art, low-cost, and environment-friendly strategy to improve seed germination, seed vigor, abiotic and biotic stress tolerance, and the yield of field and horticultural crops. Seed priming involves imbibing the seeds in a priming solution under a desired set of environm...

16/12/2025

Announcements: The IECAG 2025 started! The 5th International Electronic Conference on will be held from 15- 18 December, CET.

Day 1: Session 5 and Session 6
Day 2: Session 1 and Session 2
Day 3: Session 7 and Session 8
Day 4: Session 4 and Session 3

All conference sessions will be virtual on Zoom. Registered attendees should have received unique Zoom links to attend the conference. If you have not received any Zoom links the day before the conference, please check your spam folder or contact us at [email protected]

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The 5th International Electronic Conference on Agronomy

16/12/2025

🚩 Latest Paper Published in : Recycled Nitrogen for Regenerative Agriculture: A Review of Agronomic and Environmental Impacts of Circular Nutrient Sources
👉 Check the paper via the following link:https://brnw.ch/21wYocL
This article belongs to the Section Agroecology Innovation: Achieving System Resilience

Global agriculture faces the twin challenges of meeting rising food demand while minimizing environmental impacts, necessitating transformative approaches to nutrient management. Recycled nitrogen fertilizers (RNFs), derived from diverse organic and waste sources such as urine, manure, compost, dige...

16/12/2025

🚩 Review Article Recommendation
Review of the Underutilized Indigenous Portulacaria afra (Spekboom) as a Sustainable Edible Food Source
🔸Link: https://brnw.ch/21wYo1C
📖Learn more: https://brnw.ch/21wYo1B

Southern Africa faces numerous challenges, such as increasing biodiversity loss and environmental degradation. Additionally, poor and vulnerable communities suffer from undernourishment and are food insecure. Therefore, Southern Africa must adopt inclusive, sustainable food systems that support food...

15/12/2025

🟢 Extended Deadline: Special Issue on Precision Monitoring of Crops and Pastures Using UAV, Satellite, and Sensor Technologies

We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for this Special Issue in Agronomy MDPI has been extended to 31 May 2026. This issue highlights recent advances in the application of geoinformatics, UAVs, satellites, sensors, and AI/ML technologies for precise crop and pasture monitoring.
The issue welcomes research articles, communications, and reviews, with particular interest in:

- GIS and advanced geoinformatics tools applied to agriculture
- Optical and microwave remote sensing for crops and livestock
- UAV-based monitoring and photogrammetry methods
- AI and machine learning applications for precision agriculture

Guest Editors: Dr. Jitka Kumhalova, Prof. Dr. Iñigo Molina, Dr. Frantisek Kumhala

🟢 New submission deadline: 31 May 2026

Learn more and submit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/agronomy/special_issues/7ZJAH3XJFC

15/12/2025

🌱 Special Issue Highlight: Crop Disease Resistance-Related Signaling Pathways 🌱

Pathogens continue to challenge global crop production, affecting food security, sustainability, and resilience. This Special Issue in Agronomy MDPI explores disease resistance-related signaling pathways in crops, covering studies from molecular mechanisms to ecological perspectives.

Whether your work focuses on plant signaling, disease resistance, or sustainable crop protection, this Special Issue is a valuable resource and researchers in this area are welcome to contribute.

Guest Editors: Dr. Alice Kira Zelman & Prof. Dr. Gerald Berkowitz (University of Connecticut). Submission deadline: 31 July 2026.

Check it out here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/agronomy/special_issues/F4088NEXLX