Rice Germplasm Innovation and Tolerance to Abiotic Stress

Dear Colleagues,

As the staple food source for around 4 billion people, rice is one of the most important food crops in the world. Currently, with changes to the global climate, rice is facing a great deal of abiotic stresses such as soil salinity, drought, and cold and heat stress. The devolpment of innovative rice germplasm, with strong stress tolerance, is a key step to coping with this challenge. The identification of stress tolerance genes from wild relatives would, in particular, greatly expand the gene pool for rice breeding for stress tolerance. In this respect, innovated rice germplasm provides novel resources for rice breeding, and new insights for the stress tolerance mechanisms of rice.

In this Special Issue, we aim to exchange knowledge on any aspect related to innovations in rice germplasm for abiotic stress tolerance. Including indentificaiton of how new genes respond to abiotic stress, novel gene function analysis, and genetic or physiological mechanisms.

Dr. Weihua Qiao
Guest Editor

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• rice
• abiotic salt tolerance
• germplasm innovation
• gene identification
• regulation network
• QTL mapping
• genomics
• transcriptomic
• gene expression
• natural variation