Molecular Breeding for Plant Disease Resistance
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 1565
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant genetics; plant breeding; biotechnology; bioinformatic; stress resistance; gene-environment interaction
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants in their natural environment must inevitably coexist with other organisms. This coexistence is not always “peaceful” and they often find themselves attacked by a wide variety of pathogens, which can also get the best of them. Marker Assisted Selection (MAS) and molecular breeding strategies are helping the breeder considerably in developing resistant genotypes and represent a winning strategy to speed up the breeding programs. Furthermore, advancements in sequencing techniques and genomics, high throughput genotyping and advanced statistical approaches strongly support the development of new breeding strategies in disease resistance.
This special issue will collect scientific papers concerning the whole process of identification and use of markers and genetic strategies for breeding disease-resistant plants. Therefore, we will include articles mainly focused on the following subjects:
- discovery and exploitation of new genetic resources for disease resistance (including those from wild relatives);
- marker assisted selection and innovative molecular breeding tools and approaches;
- statistical methods in molecular breeding for disease resistance;
- strategies and molecular techniques for the development of new or improved markers for resistance;
- newly identified molecular markers/genes/metabolites linked to disease resistance (monogenic or polygenic resistance);
- germplasm screening for selection of resistant genotypes.
Dr. Chiara Broccanello
Dr. Diana Bellin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- molecular marker
- plant breeding
- breeding approaches
- stress resistance
- genetic diversity new biotechnological tools
