Grapevine Physiology and Genomics
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Physiology and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2020) | Viewed by 3015
Special Issue Editors
Interests: grapevine systems biology; environmental stress physiology; functional genomics
Interests: environmental stress and adaptation; genetic; physiology
Interests: grapevine insect and disease resistance biology; transcriptomics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The grapevine has been cultivated world-wide in diverse environments for several thousand years. The dominate species in production is V. vinifera; however, the Vitis genus encompasses at least 60 interfertile species, and many interspecific crosses are used in the production of fresh fruit, processed fruit products, and rootstocks to enhance crop sustainability. Increasing challenges to sustainable production of this long-lived crop under changing environmental conditions requires sustained systems biology approaches which incorporate genomic and genetic strategies in the vine and its associated pathogens. In the decade following the first release of a grapevine genome assembly (2007), rapid developments in genome, transcriptome, and epigenome sequencing of grapevine and associated insect and pathogen stressors, coupled with rapid advances in bioinformatics, have provided powerful tools for detailed systems biology studies on grapevine. This research topic will summarize recent functional genomic research focusing on the integrated use of genomics, genetics, phenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics to explore questions in vine systems biology, including: phenotypic plasticity, root–shoot interactions, crop quality and production traits, disease, and insect tolerance, to promote advances in functional gene characterization and marker-assisted selection. The article collection will help to advance molecular pathway characterization and identification of mechanisms involved in grapevine biology and sustainability in changing environment.
Prof. Dr. Anne Fennell
Dr. Jason Londo
Dr. Rachel Naegele
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- transcriptomics
- physiology
- metabolomics
- genetics
- grapevine functional genomics
