Bridging Abiotic Stress and Nutrient Limitation: Mechanisms, Soil–Plant Interactions, and Agronomic Strategies for Climate-Resilient Crop Production

Climate change is intensifying environmental constraints on agriculture and global food security. Increasing temperature variability has resulted in more frequent heat waves, unexpected cold events, prolonged droughts, and extreme flooding. Rising sea levels are expanding salt-affected soils, while heavy metal contamination, acid rain, and soil degradation further impair crop development. These abiotic pressures rarely occur in isolation; instead, plants are increasingly exposed to combined or sequential stress conditions. At the same time, nutrient disorders, including deficiencies, imbalances, and toxicities, are becoming more prevalent due to soil depletion, poor management, and climate-driven shifts in nutrient availability. Together, these interacting stressors significantly reduce crop productivity, resilience, and nutritional quality. Understanding how plants, soils, and cropping systems respond to these complex challenges is essential for developing sustainable strategies that ensure food production under future climate scenarios.This Research Topic aims to address the growing challenge of multiple interacting stressors on agricultural systems and to advance scientific understanding of how abiotic stress and nutrient limitation jointly impact plant performance, soil processes, and crop productivity. A key goal is to identify knowledge gaps related to the physiological, biochemical, ecological, and agronomic responses triggered when plants are exposed to combined or sequential stresses rather than singular factors.By integrating contributions from plant science, soil science, and agronomy, this Topic seeks to promote novel strategies capable of enhancing crop resilience, nutrient-use efficiency, and long-term sustainability. We encourage studies that explore emerging technologies, innovative inputs (such as biostimulants, beneficial elements, engineered fertilizers, and microbial consortia), precision agriculture, modelling tools, and climate-smart management practices. Ultimately, this Research Topic aims to connect mechanistic insights with practical applications, facilitating the development of resilient cropping systems that maintain productivity and food quality under increasingly variable and challenging environmental conditions.This Research Topic welcomes studies that investigate the interactions between abiotic stresses and nutrient limitation across plant, soil, and cropping system levels. We encourage contributions addressing physiological and biochemical responses to combined or sequential stresses, soil–plant–microbial interactions affecting nutrient availability, and agronomic strategies that improve productivity and resilience under challenging environmental conditions.Relevant themes include, but are not limited to: nutrient-use efficiency, water-use efficiency, stress signalling networks, soil nutrient dynamics, rhizosphere processes, precision agriculture, climate-smart management practices, emerging technologies (e.g., biostimulants, beneficial elements, engineered fertilizers, nanotechnology), and modelling or remote sensing approaches to monitor stress responses.We welcome Original Research and Reviews. Multidisciplinary studies and submissions integrating mechanistic understanding with applied solutions are particularly encouraged. Topic editors: Jonas Pereira De Souza Júnior, Ramón Gerardo Guevara-Gonzalez, Dr. T. P. Ajeesh Krishna, Gelza Carliane Marques Teixeira, Davie Mayeso Kadyampakeni Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/76277/bridging-abiotic-stress-and-nutrient-limitation-mechanisms-soil-plant-interactions-and-agronomic-strategies-for-climate-resilient-crop-production