Flower Germplasm Resources and Genetic Breeding: Volume II

Dear Colleagues,

Over the past several decades, significant advances have been made in horticulture germplasm research at both community and individual levels. These advances have especially been achieved along with the availability of new techniques and the genome sequences of flower plants. More specific research is necessary to enhance the basic and applied research on flower genetic resources. This Special Issue of Plants will cover various aspects of flower germplasm, including the following:

1. Germplasm collection and genetic diversity. These papers should focus on the collection, preservation, and utilization of flower germplasm, as well as the evaluation and broadening of genetic diversity.
2. Elite germplasm mining with ideal target traits. These papers should focus on the development of QTL mapping approaches and their application to the characterization of the genetic architecture of plant traits using genetic linkage mapping and/or genome-wide association studies. Papers on mapping plant growth traits using functional mapping are particularly welcomed.
3. New techniques and data reanalysis in germplasm enhancement. These papers should focus on issues that are broadly relevant to the genetics of plant traits. Given the availability of a large number of genomes, transcriptomes, proteomes, and metabolomes across plants, we are interested in submissions that take a holistic approach to survey the data from a new perspective/angle, and/or those which analyze the data using new tools.

Prof. Dr. Lidan Sun
Dr. Ming Cai
Guest Editors

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• germplasm resource
• molecular breeding
• genetic regulation