Impact of Climate Change on Citrus Nutrition

Climate change as an inevitable biological event has impacted plant science, right from molecular biology to agronomy of citrus crop with sustainability in quality production at stake amid threatening presence of citrus greening like diseases. However, such scenario offers a tailored opportunity in the face of multiple threats of climate change by expanding the geographical ranges of citrus crop, where citrus nutrition could occupy a centerstage position. Despite citrus being one of the most researched crops, researchers are still fighting hard to find ways and means to ensure nutritional quality of citrus fruits under multiple nutrient deficiencies due to upsurge in nutrient mining. Climate change having dictating impact on citrus phenology resharpened the rhizosphere microbiome diversity as well as functioning to the extent, thereby affecting the plant nutrient supply to citrus fruits affecting the nutrient density and cutting down the shelf life of fruits. Unfortunately, the conventional tools of nutrient management have not been able to provide the same ease of success under climate change scenario, adding an element of uncertainty regarding both diagnosis and management of nutrient constraints under different management practices while comparing open field versus protected cultivation. These sets of cultivation of citrus have consistently challenged both researchers as well as practitioners, warranting a new lease of thoughts to be brought in neutralize the ongoing climate conundrum and develop a climate -smart citrus nutrition.

This article collection is proposed to address the following five major goals: i) climate change and quality production of citrus fruits, ii) climate change relating phenological versus nutritional disorders, iii) climate change vis-a-vis functional diversity of rhizosphere microbiome for soil health bioprospecting, iv) climate change vis-a-vis soil nutrient capita and nutritional quality of citrus fruits, v) climate change and nutritional-associated citrus diseases, and new tools of assessment of plant nutrient supply under climate change scenario. These well-defined goals are expected to throw some deep insights on the impact of climate change on citrus nutrition.

The proposed article collection is aimed to invite original research and review articles from various fields working on citrus in response to climate change scenario. These comprise of disciplines like plant biotechnology (genomics and plant nutrition), horticulture (crop phenology and citrus fertilization, nutrient requirement under protected system and open fields), plant physiology (nutritional physiology distinguishing physiological disorders from nutritional disorders), soil science (soil fertility and plant nutrition: diagnosis and management), soil microbiology (reshaping of rhizosphere and endospheric microbiome diversity and functioning), abiotic stress (morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecular signaling of nutrient and water deficit stress), plant pathology (plant nutrition as defense to pathogen survival and progression), and post-harvest response (plant nutrition facilitating improved shelf life of fruits through elevated antioxidant profiling and phytonutrients accumulation ). This is supposed to be the first such comprehensive effort highlighting response of climate change on citrus nutrition.

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Article types

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• Opinion
• Original Research
• Perspective
• Review
• Systematic Review

Keywords: Climate change, nutrtional quality of fruits, sustainability, rhizosphere micorbiome, soil fertility, plant nutrition, nutrient diagnostics

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