Molecular Breeding and Genetics of Plant Drought Resistance
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 April 2025 | Viewed by 144
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant breeding; genetics and biometrics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleague,
We would like to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue of the journal Genes, entitled “Molecular Breeding and Genetics of Plant Drought Resistance”.
Drought stress is one of the most critical the abiotic stress factors. It is predicted that by 2050, more than half of the world’s arable land will be affected by drought. The development of drought-resistant or drought-tolerant plants and cultivars with stable yields under drought and non-drought conditions is therefore becoming one of the most important goals of breeding worldwide. In addition to conventional breeding methods, breeders today have numerous biotechnological tools at their disposal that can assist them in characterizing drought-resistance traits in elite and non-elite crop germplasm. Biotechnological approaches such as the identification and introgression of trait-specific QTLs, marker-assisted selection and backcrossing, genomic selection, mutation breeding and, more recently, genetic improvement via genome editing techniques will play a crucial role in future plant breeding programs for drought resistance. In this Special Issue, we will gather knowledge on the latest advances in the research and application of modern molecular breeding and genetic tools for the development of populations and cultivars that can withstand future global climate change.
Prof. Dr. Ivan Pejić
Guest Editor
Dr. Miroslav Bukan
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- climate change
- abiotic stress
- drought assessment
- plant phenotyping
- drought resistance
- molecular breeding
- marker assisted selection
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