Recent Advances in Crops Genome-Wide Assisted Selection Breeding
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 43
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Interests: rice; molecular breeding; gene editing
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Interests: rice; heading date; saline–alkali resistance; quantitative trait locus; map-based cloning; functional analysis
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Interests: genetic improvement of rice quality; developmental biology of rice
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Interests: rice; yield; quantitative trait locus
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Genome-wide association selection (GWAS) technology in crops has been an important research direction in the field of plant science in recent years, significantly improving the efficiency and accuracy of crop trait improvement. Through high-throughput genomic sequencing technology, breeders can efficiently identify gene markers associated with important agronomic traits. In recent years, the application of GWAS in breeding practices of major crops such as wheat, rice, corn, and soybeans has achieved precise regulation of disease resistance, stress tolerance, and yield traits. Additionally, the integrated analysis of genetic genotypes and phenotypic data provides a new perspective for studying the genetic basis of traits. However, despite the progress made in both theory and application of GWAS, it still faces challenges such as data complexity, insufficient analytical capabilities, and biosafety. In the future, with the advancement of technology and improvements in data analysis methods, genome-wide association selection is expected to be more widely used in the field of crop breeding, providing important support for food security and sustainable agricultural development.
To promote the further development of GWAS in crop molecular breeding and provide researchers with research ideas and breeding guidance, we have created this Special Issue. The papers we are soliciting will focus on case studies, challenges, and solutions in the practical application of GWAS technology, aiming to provide new ideas and methods for the field of crop breeding. We would like to invite research articles or reviews related to the identification of molecular markers linked to quantitative trait loci (QTLs)/genes through various genomic tools including bi-parental QTL approaches, genome-wide association studies (GWASs), mutagenesis, etc., and their application for marker-assisted selection (MAS)/genomic selection in crops.
Dr. Xiaodeng Zhan
Dr. Weixun Wu
Dr. Xiangjin Wei
Dr. Yingxin Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- crop breeding
- Marker-assisted selection (MAS)
- Quantitative trait locus (QTL)
- Genome-wide association study (GWAS)
- mutagenesis
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