Breeding and Genetics to Shape Rice Production Systems in the New Climatic Scenario
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 (20 January 2022) | Viewed by 20651
Special Issue Editors
Interests: genetics; genomics; cereals; rice; biotechnology; food systems; food and nutrition; food quality
Interests: cereals; genomics; functional genomics; cereal breeding
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are incredibly pleased to announce a Special Issue of the journal Agriculture on “Breeding and Genetics to Shape Rice Production Systems in the New Climatic Scenario”.
Rice represents the staple food for more than half of the world’s population, but several climate-change-related biotic and abiotic factors as well as the need for lowering agricultural inputs are threatening sustainable production all over the world. As an important source of calories and a basic food ingredient, rice serves as a vehicle for nutritional components that affect human diet, quality of life, and longevity in developed and developing countries.
This Special Issue aims to identify and review the latest developments in rice genetics, genomics, and marker-assisted breeding, aimed at improving rice tolerance to biotic and abiotic constrains, increasing the exploitation of natural resources for lowering chemical inputs, and implementing nutritional quality of rice end products.
We are facing a very challenging time, and within the paradigm of One Health, agriculture will need to find the proper modalities to feed the planet in a safer and more sustainable way.
As Guest Editors of this Special Issue, we kindly invite you to submit your articles, as original research, reviews, opinions, and short communications.
Dr. Elisabetta Lupotto
Prof. Dr. Luigi Cattivelli
Prof. Dr. Giampiero Valè
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Rice
- Breeding
- Genetics
- Marker-assisted breeding
- New breeding techniques
- Stress tolerance
- Nutritional quality