The Formation of Genetic Diversification and Its Contribution to the Evolution of Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2020) | Viewed by 234
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Our assumptions of the drivers of plant evolution and adaptation often focus on single nucleotide and copy number variation that in turn is focused on genes, predominately their exonic sequences. Recent advances in genomic technologies and the overall precipitous drop in the cost of whole genome sequencing, coupled with the rise of long and ultra-long DNA fragment sequencing, is revolutionizing our ability to interrogate the wider mechanisms of genetic diversification within and between species, generating a far more nuanced view of evolutionary processes in plants.
This democratization of genomics has delivered many new and fascinating datasets that have raised many questions around the plethora of mutagenic as well as epigenetic pathways, giving rise to genome diversity and plasticity. This, in turn, asks how these changes contribute to plant adaptation and ultimately wider plant evolution.
This knowledge is now highly pertinent given the backdrop of the demands of a rapidly expanding human population coupled to the challenges facing agriculture in the face of rapid, global climate change.
Dr. Christopher Winefield
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- genomics
- epigenomics
- structural variation
- transposons
- copy number variation
- structural variation
- polyploidy
- meiotic and mitotic recombination
- deletion
- gene conversion
