Recent Developments for Climate-Resilient Small Grain Cereals Breeding
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2021) | Viewed by 2864
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cereals; genomics; functional genomics; cereal breeding
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Interests: barley; genetics; diversity; phenology
Interests: plant genomics; physiology; physiological phenotyping
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Small grain cereals (wheat, barley, oats, rye) constitute the main pillar of food security. Current cereal production is threatened by climate change. Increasing temperatures, more frequent episodes of drought and other catastrophic climatic events, and the societal drive towards reduction of the chemical input in agriculture, have to be leveraged with the rise in CO2, plant genetics, physiology, and big data approaches to deliver productive and resilient cereal crops. Plant breeders are faced with new demands to sustain grain yield and quality while protecting the environment, and the selection of new cultivars carrying sustainability-related traits is becoming a major goal.
Please share your success stories from research in genetics, physiology and breeding for climate-resilient cereals around the world in this Special Issue. Invited submissions include, but are not limited to, the following topics: 1) Genomic characterization of genetic resources related to adaptation to environment; 2) Innovative and novel applications of plant phenotyping; 3) Decision support tools and modelling; 4) Genomic assisted breeding; 5) Genomic prediction and other –omics-based advances related to crop resilience; 6) ….
Prof. Dr. Luigi Cattivelli
Dr. Ana M. Casas
Prof. Dr. Alan H. Schulman
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Cereal genetics
- Phenotyping
- GWAS
- Water stress
- Temperature stress
- Sustainability-related traits
- Future climate
- Genomics-assisted breeding
- Crop simulation models
- Genomic prediction
