Genetics- and Genomics-Based Crop Improvement and Breeding: 3rd Edition
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: 30 December 2024 | Viewed by 2374
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Interests: wheat molecular genetics and genomics
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, although plant breeding has greatly and steadily improved the performance of crops, including wheat and its related species, maize, oat, rye, rice, barley, millet, and sorghum, the global growing food demand due to the increasing population and decrease in the amount of available land requires these cereal crops to be both more productive and resistant to harsher environmental conditions as a result of climate change.
The development of next-generation sequencing (NGS) has greatly improved the course of science research. Researchers are facing an unprecedented opportunity to identify genes controlling complex phenotypes and understand how the genes fulfill functions through the interaction between genes and environmental factors. This provides a new approach for breeding programs in cereals that can significantly reduce the cost and time needed by traditional breeding or domestication approaches. However, we should note that most breeding programs still mainly depend on conventional breeding selection to be performed in repeated and time-consuming field work.
Therefore, it is rather essential to make full use of the advancements in the NGS of cereal crops and high-throughput phenotyping and genotyping platforms to genetically identify, evaluate, excavate, and characterize more germplasm resources and loci/genes to work towards crop improvement.
In this Special Issue, we aim to promote an improvement in cereal crops; thus, we invite the submission of original research, review, methods, mini-review, perspective, and opinion articles on topics related, but not limited, to the following areas:
- Identification, evaluation, and characterization of various germplasm;
- Identification and breeding utilization of favorable alleles which have not been fully explored;
- Genetic mapping, fine mapping, and genome-wide association analysis of loci/genes for important traits;
- Development and breeding utilization of molecular markers tightly linked to important traits;
- Structural and functional genomics in crops, proteomics and metabolic profiling, and field evaluation of crops containing particular traits.
Prof. Dr. Jian Ma
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- crop
- germplasm
- genetics
- genomics
- breeding
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