Genetics and Breeding of Rice (Oryza sativa L.)
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2023) | Viewed by 2063
Special Issue Editors
Interests: rice; genetics; genome editing; plant biotechnology; stress tolerance; biochemistry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Rice is the primary calorie source for more than half of the world’s population, thereby ensuring global food security. The last two decades have witnessed tremendous progress in breeding technologies, resulting in the development of climate-resilient, high-yielding rice cultivars. In addition to yield improvement, serious efforts have been made to enhance the nutrition and quality of rice grain, specifically the zinc and protein content. Wild rice species are serving as a novel source of genes for breeding stress-tolerant and high-yielding genotypes. Next-generation sequencing technologies have aided the generation of massive genomics data through sequencing, resequencing, and transcriptomics of coding and non-coding RNAs. In addition to structural genomics, the progress on functional genomics has accelerated in recent times through the development of mutants, the mapping of QTLs and genes, transgenic development and genome editing. The information generated through genomics has been successfully utilized in developing new cultivars/genotypes through breeding and genome-editing approaches.
In this Special Issue, we aim to publish high-quality research articles and reviews on all aspects of new breeding tools including but not limited to genomics-assisted breeding (GAB), high-throughput genotyping and phenotyping, genomic resources derived from wild rice and mutants and their utilization in breeding programs through genomic tools. This Special Issue will cover the identification and characterization of genes/alleles/haplotypes through the sequencing and resequencing of rice germplasm, transcriptomics, bioinformatics, over-expression and knock-out/knockdown through genome-editing/RNAi approaches. All aspects of structural and functional genomics are within the scope of this Issue.
Dr. Satendra Kumar Mangrauthia
Dr. Raman Meenakshi Sundaram
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rice
- genomics
- genome editing
- GAB
- wild rice
- MAB
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