Genetic Modification of Flower and Fruit Color Variations 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: closed (20 April 2023) | Viewed by 20841
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In nature, flower and fruit colors play a pivotal role in the attraction of pollinators and seed dispersers. At the same time, they represent a key qualitative trait for many ornamental and horticultural crops. In recent years significant progress has been made in the production of novel flower and fruit colors by a combination of hybridization and mutation breeding, and through genetic engineering techniques. This was accelerated by increasing knowledge of the mechanisms that regulate the biosynthetic pathways of the secondary metabolites to which the most common pigments, such as flavonoids and carotenoids, belong. In ornamental plants, color has mainly an aesthetic value, while colored fruits are increasingly appreciated by consumers for the health beneficial effects of the phytochemicals they contain. In both cases, the novel color crop varieties have a large market share and, as a consequence, manipulating flower and fruit color is increasingly considered by researchers, breeders, and processors.
This Special Issue of Horticulturae will provide a current overview of the most significant researches carried out in the field of flower and fruit color modifications. You are warmly invited to submit your work to this issue that focuses on the following aspects: genetic regulation of flavonoid, carotenoid, and betalain production in horticultural species; cellular and genetic basis of structural color in flower and fruit tissues; breeding for improved or novel flower and fruit colors; genetic engineering of novel color traits in ornamental species; color as a qualitative/nutritional attribute of fruits; perspectives on new color modifications.
Dr. Silvia Gonzali
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- anthocyanin
- carotenoid
- biotechnology
- color modification
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