The Role of Molecular Breeding in Improving Agronomic Traits of Rice
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Genetics, Genomics and Breeding".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2025 | Viewed by 2080
Special Issue Editors
Interests: rice grain size; plant type; stress tolerance; gene cloning; simplified cultivation; molecular breeding
Interests: seed size; grain yield; stress tolerance; plant development; gene cloning; functional analysis; molecular breeding
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Dear Colleagues,
Rice is the staple food of more than half of the world’s population and improving rice production is a major challenge due to the global population explosion and climate change. Traditional breeding has played a major role in improving rice yields, but it is time-consuming and laborious. With the rapid development of molecular biology in recent decades, molecular breeding using molecular marker-assisted selection, genome-wide selection, and other techniques has shown great advantages in improving the agronomic traits of rice. Additionally, genome editing technology can accurately modify the DNA sequences of multiple genes simultaneously and in a short period of time, which represents great application prospects for improving multiple traits in a variety of species, including rice. Therefore, the combined use of molecular breeding and traditional breeding will come to be a better means of improving the agronomic traits of rice.
This Special Issue focuses on recent advances in the role molecular breeding plays in improving the agronomic traits of rice. Submitted papers could cover the development of high-throughput molecular marker-assisted selection modules for several key known genes that are important for agronomic traits, the mining of breeding-favorable alleles of known genes or unknown genes, and the validation of their functions. All original research, opinions, and reviews are welcome.
Dr. Yuexing Wang
Dr. Deyong Ren
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rice
- molecular breeding
- marker-assisted selection
- genome editing
- panicle type
- grain size
- yield
- plant height
- tiller
- growth period
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