Advances in Crop Genetic Diversity: Challenges and Opportunities
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Diversity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2024) | Viewed by 12624
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wheat; abiotic stress; plant breeding; crop improvement; abiotic stress tolerance; genetic diversity; crop physiology; field trials; plant phenotyping; agricultural biotechnology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to announce a forthcoming Special Issue of Diversity focused on Advances in Crop Genetic Diversity: Challenges and Opportunities, an important research area for triple reasons. First, genetic diversity is the basis for the survival of plants themselves in nature and crop improvement for breeders. Second, genetic resources are pivotal to sustaining agriculture in the face of climate change as inter-species and intra-varietal variations provide genes of adaptation to climate change-related biotic and abiotic stresses. Third, diversity provides an opportunity to access diversified and nutritious food on a local and global scale. For these reasons, sustainable utilization and conservation of crop genetic resources have been attracting global attention.
This Special Issue is an exciting opportunity to combine and synthesise recent research development on capitalization of crop genetic resources as a means of adaptation to global and local climate change impacts, sustain agricultural production and productivity and improve the resilience and nutrition of smallholder farmers in developing countries. Furthermore, this Special Issue draws on the success and challenges of plant genetic resource in situ and ex situ conservation endeavors. Hence, at Diversity, we kindly invite you to submit a manuscript or manuscripts focused on any of the above topics. Although specific research finding with broad implications are welcome, we encourage authors to submit manuscripts prepared from data generated from multi-national studies, synthesis works and reviews that could better widen our knowledge on the benefit of sustainable utilization and conservation of crop genetic resource for enhanced productivity, improved resilience and nutritional security.
If you are interested in this opportunity or have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Dr. Dejene K. Mengistu
Dr. Paola De Santis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- crop diversity
- genetic resources
- climate change
- abiotic stress
- biotic stress
- conservation
- sustainability
- resistance
- tolerance
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