Advances in Genomics and Genetic Breeding of Food Crops: Objectives and Strategies
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 September 2022) | Viewed by 2466
Special Issue Editor
Interests: quantitative genetics; abiotic stress; biotic stress; genetic diversity; crop science; molecular plant breeding
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Dear Colleagues,
Global agriculture has suffered significant losses in recent decades due to the intensification of the negative effects of climate change. These extreme weather events and the need to feed a population that by 2050 will reach the 10 billion mark raise concerns about global food security. While plant breeding has been very successful and has provided today’s highly productive crop varieties, the rate of genetic improvement must double to meet projected future demands. Plant breeding and other agricultural technologies have contributed considerably to the reduction in hunger during the last few decades. However, improving crops through conventional breeding approaches is time-consuming and lacks in ability to cope with global food needs. Therefore, current research efforts in crop improvement have advanced in the use of technologies such as genomics, phenomics, and proteomics to increase efficiency and accuracy in plant breeding. In fact, the number of crop breeding programs using OMIC-assisted breeding principles has increased considerably in recent years. Exploiting the advantages of high-throughput techniques can generate advances in the genetic improvement of crops based on OMIC-assisted breeding.
Based on these, in this issue, we will publish reviews and original research papers that focus on advances in the “Genomics and Genetic Breeding of Food Crops”, addressing techniques that can help breeding programs to increase the efficiency and reliability of the results obtained to guarantee food security worldwide.
Dr. Antônio Teixeira do Amaral Junior
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Multi-OMICs approaches (genomics, phenomics, proteomics, etc.)
- high-throughput techniques
- grain quality improvement
- hybrid seed production
- QTL mapping and GWAS
- genome sequencing
- functional genomics
- genome editing
- gene regulations
- epigenetic modifications
- food security
- crop improvement
- speed breeding
- genomic selection
