Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analysis for the Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Plants
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Genetics, Genomics, Breeding, and Biotechnology (G2B2)".
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Interests: molecular biology of vegetables; vegetable growth and development; ideotype; sex differentiation; plant biotic and abiotic stresses; mineral element absorption
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Interests: temperature stress; drought stress; hormone metabolism and signaling; molecular breeding; vegetable crop
Interests: grafting; vegetables
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Horticutural plants including fruit, vegetable and ornamental crops contain many health-promoting substances and play a vital role in sustaining human life. Among them, fruit and vegetable crops are main sources of nutrition, and some of them also are staple foods for human health. With the worsening global environment, the fast growth of the global population and the improvement in people's living standards, the market demand for high-quantity and high-quality fruit is expanding dramatically. The conventional breeding practices for horticutural plant improvement are far from meeting the demands of the times, especially with the declining genetic base and the crossing of barriers in wild and cultivated species. Therefore, transgenic research and genome engineering approaches are hot areas in modern agriculture due to their precise and rapid characteristics. In order to develop new crops by a genetic approach, it is necessary to carry out genome-wide identification and expression analysis of target genes, which control important traits, quality characters and stress tolerances and provide new insights into the crucial genes underlying these traits and their molecular regulation mechanisms.
Over the past decade, people ha e not been satisfied with the conventional breeding approaches for germplasm innovation to cope with harsh environments, and instead have preferred modern technology like transgenic technology, genomics-assisted breeding, genome editing, etc. Therefore, analyses of target genes accurately and systematically lay the foundation to research their functions. This Special Issue on “Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analysis for the Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Plants”welcomes the submission of review and research papers or short communications on the following topics: crop traits, metabolism, biotic stress and abiotic stress. Bioinformation on both genes or transcript factors and their function verification in horticultural crops are needed. The aim of this Special Issue is to provide new key genes and and valuable reference genes for revealng their molecular regulation mechanisms of important traits, metabolic pathways and resistant tolerance through the advanced technologies of molecular genetics.
Prof. Dr. Huasen Wang
Dr. Fei Ding
Dr. Li Miao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- horticutural plants
- genome-wide identification
- expression analysis
- genetic improvement
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