For this fourth edition on “Physiology and Breeding of Cereals”, Frontiers in Plant Science is proud to be collating an article collection dedicated to this symposium. We look forward to seeing how this meeting will contribute strongly the future developments between Spanish research groups and those further abroad, as well as the vital scientific discoveries which are essential right now and in the future.

As such, this collection edited by Iker Aranjuelo, Ernesto Igartua, and Gustavo Slafer, encourages abstract and manuscript submissions in the following article collection: SEFIMEC 2021 - Physiology and Breeding of Field Crops.

This article collection will focus on crop physiology and breeding under a changing global climate. In particular, we’re interested in:

• Multidisciplinary research manuscripts at different scales of agronomy, physiology, high-throughput phenotyping techniques and breeding ranging from the gene to the crop levels.
• Studies, involving the combination of multiple stresses (biotic and abiotic), fluctuating environments, and combinations of multiple study tools in plant agronomy and biology addressed in an integrative way.
• Meta-analyses manuscripts reporting data on crop development under a variety of environmental conditions.
• Contributions must clearly attest to the prospects of the study for its applicability for increasing crop productivity, nutritional value, and/or land-use efficiency under field conditions.

Submission Deadlines:

• Abstract:      09 December 2021
• Manuscript:  16 March 2022

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