Special issue on methods to assess crop stress resilience

Our food crops are threatened by ever-increasing environmental challenges as a consequence of climate change. It’s critical that we develop strategies to monitor and mitigate these stresses, but it’s also a huge undertaking. A new focus issue in Physiologia Plantarum provides a set of articles that span diverse methods and tools to assess crop stress resilience. The introductory editorial (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ppl.70921) provides an excellent overview of the collected articles. The authors group the collection into three sections dealing with (1) imaging and phenotyping stress responses, (2) assessing the molecular responses to stress, and (3) enhancing resilience through priming. The collection is a terrific resource, and the complete list of articles is here https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1399-3054.crop-stress. (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social)