Sugarcane Breeding and Biotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 333
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sugarcane breeding and genetics; biotechnology; molecular biology; virology; agronomy; stress physiology; transcription factors; genome sequencing; multi-omics; gene functional analysis; transgenic plants
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Interests: sugarcane hybrid breeding; germplasm creation; genome sequencing; genomic selection; multi-omics; stress physiology; gene functioning and characterization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is an important industrial C4 crop, accounting for 80% of sugar worldwide. Various biotic and abiotic stressors are major factors that can impede sugarcane’s entire growth and development period. Recently, numerous modern breeding and biotechnological approaches have been used to improve sugarcane’s agronomic attributes under stressful conditions. However, more investigations are required to explore detailed features regulating the balance between growth and defense responses in sugarcane. Creating climate-resilient cultivars is a smart strategy to enhance resilience and assist crop improvement in modern agriculture. Therefore, this Special Issue will highlight recent advances in the utilization of classical genetics, molecular breeding, and modern biotechnological approaches to increase sugarcane resilience and productivity in the context of sustainable agriculture. The aim and scope of this Special Issue include (but are not limited to) classical and molecular breeding, genomics selection, genome editing, double haploids, multi-omics, and smart agriculture, which contribute to the development of more resilient and productive sugarcane germplasm and varieties.
Prof. Dr. San-Ji Gao
Dr. Qinnan Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sugarcane (Saccharum spp.)
- sustainable agriculture
- agronomic attributes
- environmental stressors
- defense responses
- signaling molecules
- genomics selection
- smart breeding
- gene editing
- artificial intelligence
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