Genes, Genetics and Breeding of Tomato
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Genetics, Genomics, Breeding, and Biotechnology (G2B2)".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 22614
Special Issue Editor
Interests: the vegetable quality (nutrition, flavor) formation and its regulation; molecular biology and biotechnology applied in vegetable crops; vegetable germplasm enhancement and molecular breeding
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Dear Colleagues,
Tomato is widely cultivated and is one of the most important vegetable crops in the world, with great economic significance. During the past two decades, tomato production has increased two-fold, which is largely the result of genetic improvement toward high yield and adaptation. Over the years, the goals of the genetic breeding of tomatoes have targeted productivity and tolerance to pests and diseases. Consumers demand high nutritional and taste quality and producers demand tomato fruit that is easy to cultivate with high adaptation to stress or disease.
Fortunately, tomato is a vegetable crop that is rich in genetic resources and could serve as a model for fruit biology and plant genetics. Great progress has been made on the genes and genetics underlying the important traits, e.g., fruit development, yield, quality, abiotic stress adaptation, and disease resistance. These genes facilitate tomato improvement by molecular approaches. Indeed, molecular breeding technology has been widely applied in tomato improvement. For this reason, the proposed Special Issue on “Genes, Genetics and Breeding of Tomato” will present advances in gene mining, genetic mechanism, and molecular breeding of tomato. We look forward to receiving your manuscripts (reviews and research articles) and are eager to share your results with the research and industry community.
Prof. Dr. Yuyang Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- genes
- genetics
- breeding
- tomato
- improvement
- yield
- quality
- disease resistance
- stress tolerance