Omics and Breeding of Bast Fiber Crops
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2022) | Viewed by 3856
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Interests: omics; crop domestication; crop genetic improvement
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Interests: genetic breeding and multipurpose utilization of bast fiber crops
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Dear Colleagues,
Bast fiber is one of the most important fibers, and it is typically extracted from the stem barks and leaves of crops including jute, flax, ramie, hemp, kenaf, sisal, and so on. In the past decades, reference genomes for major bast fiber crops including jute, kenaf, ramie, hemp, and flax were released, which helped scientists to explore function genomics, genomic resequencing, pangenomics and the identification of genes linked with desired agronomic traits, as well as molecular markers such as SNPs and InDels. The referenced genomes provide an important basis for researching the methylome, modified proteome, transcriptome, non-encoding RNAs, and so on in bast fiber crops. Accordingly, omics studies help molecular breeding and genomic selection breeding come to light.
Prof. Dr. Touming Liu
Prof. Dr. Aiguo Zhu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bast fibers
- omics
- genomics
- proteomics
- gene cloning
- agronomic traits
- genetic mapping