Genes and Their Regulatory Networks Underlying Secondary Metabolite Biosynthesis in Horticultural Crops
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Genetics, Genomics, Breeding, and Biotechnology (G2B2)".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 599
Special Issue Editors
Interests: molecular breeding; DNA methylation; gene mining of quality traits; gene editing; transcriptional regulation of secondary metabolites
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The fruits of horticultural plants are rich in secondary metabolites such as flavonoids, terpenoids, and alkaloids. Their content and composition are important quality indicators for evaluating fruit quality, and they also play a significant role in human health and response to adverse stress.
A large number of horticultural plants have completed whole-genome sequencing to identify the members of gene families that regulate important secondary metabolites, providing excellent gene resources for revealing the diversity of secondary metabolism formation and targeted breeding of varieties.
It is necessary to identify the members of the gene family that regulate the secondary metabolites of horticultural plants at the whole-genome level and obtain candidate genes through the correlation analysis of gene expression and secondary metabolites.
This Special Issue welcomes research on the identification and expression of related gene families in important secondary metabolites of horticultural plants, including the identification of gene family members, evolution and replication events, and studies related to the content of secondary metabolites and gene expression.
Dr. Yue Yin
Dr. Lingxia Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- horticultural crops
- secondary metabolites
- secondary metabolite biosynthesis pathway
- biosynthesis mechanisms
- transcription factors
- regulatory networks
- transcriptional regulation
- epigenetic regulation
- post-transcriptional regulation
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