Advances in Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics of Fruit Crops
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 827
Special Issue Editors
Interests: genetics and genomics of fruit crops; new breeding techniques; biodiversity evaluation and exploitation; fruit tree crops breeding
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fruit species represent a fundamental group of crops for the agri-food sector worldwide and fruit consumption contributes to a healthy and sustainable diet satisfying the requirements for vitamins, carotenoids and polyphenolic compounds, and fibers. With the ongoing climate change, increasing world population, and susceptibility to both biotic and abiotic stresses, important drawbacks on productivity and availability are expected, highlighting the need for more sustainable and resilient fruit varieties with high nutritional value.
Genetic diversity has a key role in answering to future challenges and plant genetic resources (PGRs) are a reservoir of useful genes and alleles. The availability of genomic sequences and technical advancements enabled the massive mining of new molecular markers and the development of a number of high throughput tools to deeply characterize PGRs.
This special issue will be focused on the evaluation of fruit crop genetic resources through genetics, genomics, and transcriptomic approaches for the exploitation of PGRs to meet the need for more sustainable and secure fruit production.
Dr. Elisa Vendramin
Dr. Micali Sabrina
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- genetics
- genomics
- transcriptomics
- plant genetic resources
- SNP
- SSR
- GWAS
- QTLs
- genomic selections
- candidate genes
