Molecular Genetic Studies in Potato Breeding — Series II
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2024) | Viewed by 11141
Special Issue Editors
Interests: potato genetics and biotechnology; molecular cytogenetics; germplasm collection
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Interests: plant molecular genetics; gene engineering; resistance to pathogens
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Potato is most important non-cereal food crop. Traditional potato breeding is complicated by autotetraploidy, a high level of heterozygosity, tetrasomic inheritance, sterility of many forms, and inbred depression.
Molecular breeding studies integrate the results of molecular genetic and genomic research and translate them into practical breeding programs. The information generated from molecular markers and QTL loci, genomes and pangenomes, variety-specific SNPs, and transcriptome profiling significantly facilitates breeding research in potato.
The objectives of the proposed Issue are to review advances in the application of molecular data in breeding, and to present recent research in potato molecular genetics.
Particular attention will be given to the opportunities of using molecular approaches to address the current challenges in potato breeding.
Submissions on the following topics (but not limited to these) are invited:
(1) Molecular mechanisms of potato tolerance to abiotic stresses and their relation to perspectives of climate changes.
(2) Molecular breeding toward durable resistance to potato diseases and pests, with special attention to new aggressive strains and to quarantine objects.
(3) Improving the nutritional value of tubers using a genomics approach.
(4) Developing new breeding techniques to improve potato cultivars—gene pyramiding, GWAS, genetic transformation, gene editing, and diploid hybrid breeding with true seeds.
Dr. Tatjana Gavrilenko
Prof. Dr. Alex V. Kochetov
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- potato
- molecular breeding
- transcriptomes profiling
- MAS
- QTL
- genomic selection
- GWAS
- genome editing
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