Climate Changes and Multi-Environment Trials in Crop and Medicinal Plants: Classical and Omics Aspects
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2023) | Viewed by 8303
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Interests: secondary metabolites; gene expression; plant tissue culture; abiotic stress; molecular breeding
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Interests: plant breeding; abiotic stresses; plant genetic resources
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Interests: genetic diversity; gene expression; abiotic stresses; antioxidant activities; plant physiology, crop breeding; wheat and barley genetic resources
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2. Department of Plant Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
Interests: crop breeding; gene discovery; gene expression; insect-plant interactions; multi-omics; plant biotechnology; plant genetics
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Dear Colleagues,
Plants have critical roles in the functioning of life on Earth due to their many benefits, such as creating energy and releasing oxygen, protecting soil from erosion, releasing nutrients to keep soils fertile, making up the foundation of the food chain, and the interception of pollutants in soil and air. Moreover, many medicines are derived from compounds provided by special plants that are known as medicinal plants. Increasing changes in climate have led to increases in environmental stresses that weaken plant resilience.
Multi-environment trials (METs) have an important role in identifying stable and adapted high-yielding plant genetic materials. Indeed, these experiments help agronomists and breeders in deciphering the interactions between genotype and environment main effects, which in turns provides a suitable opportunity to determine the contribution of each effect to plant economic characteristics.
Traditional techniques and molecular tools have been successfully used in plant breeding over the years to enhance crucial agronomic traits in crop plants. Additionally, the global food supply has undergone rapid changes as a result of climate change and the growing human population—changes that conventional breeding techniques may not be able to keep up with.
A new evolution in plant breeding that is better able to explain the relationship between genotype and phenotype is currently possible thanks to the advancement in omics technologies. This has accelerated trait improvement in crops. Plant geneticists have been able to find genes, regulatory sequences, and markers useful for novel marker-assisted breeding thanks to the benefits and positive effects of omics-assisted breeding. Plant breeders now have the option to “design” new plant varieties with greater resilience by enhancing tolerance and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses, while also obtaining higher yields of higher-quality plant material.
This Special Issue aims to collect original research and review articles on all facets of classical and omics approaches to knowledge advancement and the genetic analysis of complex agronomic traits of interest to support breeding programmes for future crops and medicinal plants.
Dr. Farzad Kianersi
Prof. Dr. Mohammad Mahdi Majidi
Dr. Alireza Pour-Aboughadareh
Prof. Dr. Yinghua Huang
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Keywords
- crop and medicinal plants
- climate change
- multi-environment trials
- genotype–environment interaction
- yield stability
- plant breeding
- abiotic and biotic stresses
- genetic diversity
- gene expression
- phenomics
- genome-wide assisted selection (GWAS)
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