Oil Crop Germplasm Characterization, Utilization, and Enhancement
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Genotype Evaluation and Breeding".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 September 2023) | Viewed by 296
Special Issue Editors
Interests: genetics and plant breeding; quantitative genetics; experimental statistics; germplasm population; cropping system; soybean science
Interests: soybean genetics and breeding; germplasm conservation and utilization; plant genetics; genomics and functional genomics; biotechnology and molecular biology; plant adaptation to environment; plant response to abiotic stress
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Oil crops produce vegetable oil, protein, feed, biofuel, and industrial materials. With the increasing human population and demand for healthier food and lifestyles, oil crop varieties with a higher yield and nutrient efficiency, better quality, and environmental friendliness, are the major goals of our breeding programs. Germplasms are important genetic resources for crop improvement in order to meet our needs and achieve a stable crop yield under biotic and abiotic stresses. The main focus of this Special Issue is how to characterize and utilize these valuable germplasms for oil crop improvement.
This Special Issue, “Oil Crop Germplasm Characterization, Utilization, and Enhancement”, welcomes the contributions of all related topics, including but not limited to the following aspects:
- Characterization of oil crop germplasm diversity by genomics, phenomics or molecular markers;
- Domestication of oil crops and comparative studies on oil crops;
- Genetic dissection of important traits in oil crops such as QTL linkage mapping or GWAS;
- Functional genomics in oil crops;
- Identification of new genes or new gene functions for important traits in oil crops;
- Exploring the natural variation and superior alleles of important genetic loci and genes for oil crop breeding;
- Oil crop design by genomic selection, genome-wide alleles, and genome editing;
- New technologies and theories for high throughput phenotyping, genotyping, biotechnology, and genomic selection.
All types of articles, such as original research, opinions, and reviews are welcome. APC discount will be granted to high quality papers.
Prof. Dr. Jun-Yi Gai
Prof. Dr. Yan Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- oil crop
- germplasm
- genetics
- genomics
- GWAS
- genomic selection
- QTL
- gene
- domestication
- breeding
