Genetics, Genomics and Bioengineering of Improved Legume Crops
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Genetics, Genomics and Breeding".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 March 2023) | Viewed by 2170
Special Issue Editor
Interests: genomics; transcription; recombinant protein expression; molecular cloning; recombinant proteins production and purification; gene expression; sequencing; transcriptional regulation; transcriptomics; regulation of gene expression
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As humanity expands, climate change and reduction in productive habitats will force more people to live in increasingly extreme environments and food deserts, straining the world’s ability to produce and deliver reliable food supplies. Legumes are hardy plants that can grow in nitrogen-poor soils under harsh environmental conditions, where they provide good sources of food, fiber, and biomass. This Special Issue will address current progress in using state-of-the-art genomic and genetic approaches to:
- Surveying the fitness, geographic distribution, and genomic and phenotypic diversity of wild and domesticated legumes.
- Identifying adaptive phenotypes and genotypes that facilitated the spread of wild species into harsh environments.
- Evaluating the interactions of legumes with non-legume plants, directly and through the soil microbiome.
- Improving responses to biotic stresses caused by common pathogens and pests.
- Enhancing tolerance to abiotic stresses, such as drought, heat, soil salinity, and cold.
- Improving the quantity, nutritional quality, and post-harvest properties of legumes cultivated for forage and seed.
- Improving plant nutrition via biofortification and the genetic engineering of root symbioses with rhizobia and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
- Manipulating plant growth and development for fitness gains and to facilitate crop cultivation and harvesting.
- Developing new tools for the genomic analysis and bioengineering of common and less-traditional legume crops.
Dr. Mauricio M. Bustos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- legumes
- genomics
- genetics
- phenotypes
- biofortification
- microbiome
- symbiosis
- nitrogen-fixation
- biotic stress
- plant defense
- abiotic stress
- drought resistance
- plant nutrition
- human nutrition
- forage crops
- seed crops
