Natural and Artificial Genetic Variability for Advancing in Fruit Plant Breeding
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural and Floricultural Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 5935
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
From the Neolithic Revolution till now, plant variability is the main driver for plant selection in agriculture.
Biodiversity has officially become an overall challenge since 1992 with the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) (http://www.biodiv.org) where all the countries increased their efforts with specific national action plans for the conservation and use of plant genetic resources for food and agricolture.
Genetic variability can also artificially be increased in order to supplement or complement sources of natural origin for plant breeding. Physical or chemical mutagens have been used for mutant obtention, but also in reverse genetics for functional genomic purposes as was the case of tilling collections during the 1990s. From 2013, CRISPR-CAS9 technology has revolutionized mutagenesis for its precision and localization.
This Special Issue is focused on the use of genetic variability in plants in order to answer specific breeding goals for fruit plant improvement. We welcome novel researches and reviews covering all related topics with the application of plant biodiversity in fruit plant species as with GWAS, markers-assisted selection, allelic variations for functional studies, genome editing, germoplasm collection characterization, genomic selection, and fine mapping. We also accept innovative works about melon and tomato as those species are models for ripening process that can be interesting for fruits crops as well.
This issue will contribute to the use of biodiversity for plant breeding in fruit crops and stimulate the debate about new methods for plant selection for a new generation of plant breeders.
Dr. Carmen Leida
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- diversity
- fruit plant breeding
- GWAS
- genome editing
- germplasm
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