The Genomics of Medicinal Plants

Dear Colleagues,

Medicinal plants are important natural resources for the development of new drugs. Understanding the genetic background of medicinal plants will provide a broad prospect for the scientific development and efficient utilization of medicinal plant resources. The advent of sequencing technologies and bioinformatics tools has substantially increased our ability to obtain plant genomes and helped us to reveal the genetic composition of plant species with important medicinal value. Although there have been many studies on the genomes of medicinal plants, a large number of valuable medicinal plant genomic resources still require sorting, in order to protect human health and social development. The purpose of this Special Issue is to report on the genomics of medicinal plants. This includes, but is not limited to, genome sequencing, genome assembly, genome structure and organization, gene prediction, genetic and physical mapping, comparative genomics, evolutionary genomics, population genomics, gene editing, DNA resequencing, exome sequencing, RNA sequencing, expression profile, gene functions, epigenomics, SNP screening, genome-wide association studies, plastid genomics and genomic selection or prediction. Bioinformatics tools and databases that facilitate the analyses of the genomic data of medicinal plants are also welcome.

Dr. Tao Zhou
Dr. Xiao Zhang
Guest Editors

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• medicinal plants
• genomics
• transcriptomics
• plastid genomics