Crop Improvement against Biotic and Abiotic Stresses in Cereals
A special issue of Cells (ISSN 2073-4409). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant, Algae and Fungi Cell Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2024) | Viewed by 10116
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Interests: durum wheat; disease resistance; genetic mapping; quantitative traits; cisgenesis
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Interests: new breeding technologies; abiotic stress; functional foods
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
To make knowledge in cereal improvement for biotic and abiotic stresses available and useful in modern plant breeding, we invite contributions for a Special Issue entitled “Crop Improvement against Biotic and Abiotic Stresses” for Cereals. Cereal crops are essential for human consumption and for feed for livestock around the world. Biotic and abiotic stresses are the leading cause of yield loss, decreasing crop productivity by 50%–80% worldwide depending on the crop and geographical location. Biotic stresses include insect bacteria, viruses, pests, and fungi. Among abiotic stresses, cold, drought, and salinity are the most damaging in cereals. The improvement of crop resistance to stresses through breeding represents the most urgent task in current plant breeding also due to the increase in demand for plant-derived products that will rise in the near future caused by the growing human population and the depletion of fossil fuels. Multidisciplinary approaches, including phenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, epigenomics, genomics, and metagenomics, could greatly contribute to obtain successful breeding strategies useful for improvement programs especially in light of changes in global climate. The incredible advances in ‘post-genomic era’ technologies have also accelerated the understanding of stress mechanisms and offer a powerful contribution for crop cereal yield increase.
Dr. Daniela Marone
Dr. Grazia Maria Borrelli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cereal crops
- genetic resources
- omic approaches
- biotic and abiotic stresses
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