<p>Section 1: Water scarcity, climate change and agriculture sustainability<br>1. Impact of climate change and drought stress on arid land agriculture<br>2. Growing water scarcity in agriculture: Future challenge to global water security<br>3. Wastewater reuse, water conservation and management in semi-arid and arid lands for sustainable agriculture<br>4. Strategies for deficit irrigation of crops<br>5. New approaches to irrigation scheduling of agronomic crops<br>6. A Contribution to soil fertility assessment for arid and semi-arid lands<br>7. Sustainable crops to cope with water scarcity and low nutritional demand<br>8. Sustainable fruit trees to cope with water scarcity and low nutritional demand<br>9. Impacts of climate change/drought stress on plant Metabolome<br>10. Impacts of drought on disease development and management<br><br>Section 2: Linking water stress and crop nutrition<br>11. Problems of soil nutrient availability for crop production under drought stress<br>12. Effects of drought stress on soil nitrogen cycling<br>13. Plant growth under drought stress: Significance of mineral nutrients<br>14. Novel aspects of fertilization in arid and semiarid regions<br><br>Section 3: Improving the soil fertility under drought conditions<br>15. Improving the efficiency of nutrient transfer from fertilizers under drought conditions<br>16. Changes of soil microbial, physical and chemical characteristics under drought stress<br>17. The impact of drought stress on soil microbial community, enzyme activities and microbial diversity<br>18. Drought stress and root-Associated bacterial communities<br>19. Drought stress and root-Associated fungal communities<br>20. Dynamics of soil fertility management practices in arid and semi-arid regions<br>21. Soil fertility management for cereal crops in semi-arid and arid conditions<br>22. Improving soil fertility and moisture in arid and semi-arid regions using organic amendments<br><br>Section 4: Positive Interactions between crops and soil microorganisms to enhance the drought tolerance<br>23. Reclamation of arid and semi-arid soils: The role of plant growth-promoting archaea and bacteria<br>24. Reclamation of arid and semi-arid soils: The role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi<br>25. Improved soil water retention and reduced evaporation in drought-stressed agriculture by soil beneficial microbes<br>26. Rhizosphere engineering for managing agriculture in arid and semi-arid regions<br><br>Section 5: Crop physiological and yield responses to water stress<br>27. Effect of soil drought on plant root systems and nutrient availability<br>28. Plant drought stress tolerance: understanding its physiological, biochemical and molecular mechanisms<br>29. Crop root responses to drought stress: Molecular mechanisms, nutrient regulations, and interactions with microorganisms in the rhizosphere<br>30. Water management in irrigated rice: coping with water scarcity</p>
