Genomics of Crops and Its Wild Relatives
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 November 2022) | Viewed by 2931
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Dear Colleagues,
Wild relatives of crop plants are widely recognized as a fundamental resource for agricultural activity. Traditional landraces have been widely sampled and stored in germplasm collections over previous centuries, but further wild plant collection programs have been planned only recently. Human activity has influenced domesticated and wild forms over thousands of years, and signatures of their activity have been deeply impressed in plant genomes. Both forms are essential to unraveling the mechanisms of the domestication process. For example, genetic and genomic analysis allow us to obtain important information about the time frames and geographic places of domestication areas, the loci of genomes involved in the domestication process, local adaptation events and tolerance to biotic stress as well as the introgression events between lineages and the level of genetic resource conservation. Moreover, epigenetic relationships between wild and domesticated lineages are mostly unexplored, and bioprospecting can reveal unknown bioactive molecules in wild lineages. In this Special Issue, we would like to share exciting new discoveries about genetic and genomics relationships between crops and their wild relatives.
Prof. Dr. Fabrizio Grassi
Dr. Paolo Boccacci
Guest Editors
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