Breakthroughs and Prospects of Rice Breeding
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2022) | Viewed by 9591
Special Issue Editors
Interests: rice genetics; gene mapping and functional detection; evolutionary genomics; development of breeding methods; origin of new genes; horizontal gene transfer; de novo gene origin; population genomics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Rice (Oryza sativa) provides a staple food source for more than half the world population. Although modern genome technology, biotechnology, and information technology have greatly promoted the development of rice breeding, the current pace of rice breeding is insufficient to meet the food demand of the ever-increasing global population and the changing environments. The in-depth development and application of many omics technologies, including genomics, transcriptomics, metabonomics, proteomics, etc., have significantly promoted genetic analyses and functional gene mining of elite rice germplasm resources. Many genes/QTLs for yield, quality, resistance, and other important traits have been identified. However, there are many factors that restrict the breakthrough progress in rice breeding, including that the depth and breadth of elite germplasm resource mining is not enough, the development of new excellent allele variations through gene editing needs further strengthening, and the development of molecular design breeding methods such as genomic selection needs to be further developed.
This Special Issue will focus on “Breakthroughs and Prospects of Rice Breeding”. We seek original research articles and reviews covering all related topics, including detection of genes/QTLs with important breeding value, creation of new genetic variation through gene editing, development of breeding methods, and the successful practice of rice breeding.
Prof. Dr. Zefeng Yang
Dr. Yang Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rice
- gene/QTL mapping
- association analysis
- genomic selection
- molecular breeding by design
- gene editing
- CRISPR
- functional detection
- yield
- quality
- multiple resistance
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