Recent Trends in Oilseed Breeding and Genetics for Agronomical Traits
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 (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 8472
Special Issue Editors
Interests: peanut; plant breeding; genetics; genomics; GWAS; QTL studies; RNAseq studies
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: plant breeding; genetics; genomics; GWAS; QTL studies; RNAseq studies; epigenetics; cotton; soybean; peanut; grasses
Interests: genome-wide association mapping; reproductive biology; floral development, genotype-environment (GxE) interactions; seed dormancy; physiology; phytohormones; plant architecture; flowering; sunflowers
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
High-value edible oilseed crops, such as sunflower, peanut, soybean, sesame, olive, canola, safflower, and palms, provide one of the most valuable commodities in world trade. Studies pursuing to understand oil biosynthesis in plants have ramped up in recent years. Research on oilseed breeding has made substantial progress in altering oil composition, developing better-quality seeds and resistant varieties to insect, pest, and abiotic stress, and improving agronomic traits, thus increasing the overall yield of the crop. Still, it takes much longer to develop a new cultivar through conventional breeding. Recent advances in molecular and genetics tools will be highly effective and speed up the breeding process. The availability of whole-genome sequences of several oilseed crops, cost-effective sequencing techniques, and SNP genotyping arrays have made studies to identify genomic regions and genes conferring better agronomical traits much accessible. In this Special Issue of Plants, we invite research on agronomically essential traits, environmental adaptability, biotic and abiotic stress management, nutritional genomics, studies involving mutant populations, genome-editing, differential gene expression analysis, GWAS studies, mapping of qualitative and quantitative traits, epigenetics, marker-assisted breeding, and strategies to improve oilseed crops.
Prof. Dr. Charles Y. Chen
Dr. Jinesh D Patel
Dr. Srinidhi Holalu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- oilseed breeding
- epigenetics
- abiotic stress
- biotic stress
- differential gene expression
- genetics
- genomics
- genetic diversity
- marker-assisted breeding
- bioinformatics
- seed quality traits
- seed dormancy