Advances in Blueberry Research
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural Science and Ornamental Plants".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 11241
Special Issue Editors
Interests: genetic improvement of blueberries; MicroRNA technologies
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Interests: regulation of blueberry fruit development and maturation; functions of noncoding rna; tree genetics and breeding; evolutionary biology
Interests: tree genetics and breeding; evolutionary biology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Blueberry (Vaccinium ssp.) belongs to the genus Vaccinium in the Ericaceae family. It is a major fruit crop grown worldwide, especially in the United States. The blueberry fruit is a nutrient-rich food containing anthocyanins, other antioxidant pigments, and other phytochemicals, which greatly promote human health such as improvement of vision, blood glucose balance, elimination of free radicals, aging delay, inhibition of obesity and hyperlipidemia, and prevention of cardiovascular diseases. However, there is limited information available regarding germplasm resources, genetics, functional genomics, phenomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and pharmacology of this fruit plant.
This Special Issue aims to bring forward the latest research in blueberry in multiple disciplines, to improve fruit yield, nutritional quality, and stress tolerance and prevent diseases. All types of original papers, such as original research articles and reviews, are welcome.
Dr. Guiliang Tang
Dr. Shaomin Bian
Dr. Ting Lan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- breeding
- genetics
- epigenetics
- genomics
- evolution
- blueberry fruit composition and quality
- nutrition, diseases, and health
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