Domestication and Transcription Factors Related to Important Traits in Horticultural Crops
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural and Floricultural Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 7892
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Interests: molecular biology; agrochemicals; molecular markers; dormancy; flowering time; plant physiology; plant biochemistry; transcriptomics; VIGS; metabolomics; LC–MS; GC–MS
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Dear Colleagues,
As part of evolution, domestication has enabled wild plants and animals to be cultivated and consumed. This domestication occurred spontaneously or by humans, to adapt to a new environment. As a result, plants have developed new traits, such as bigger branches, bigger and sweeter fruits, etc., in which many transcription factors have a major role. When, where, and how most horticultural crops are domesticated today is being elucidated by the combination of different disciplines: archaeobotany, breeding, biochemistry, bioinformatics, physiology, molecular biology, etc.
We welcome submissions on topics including (but not limited to): (1) domestication of plants; (2) transcription factors involved in important traits, such as dormancy, flowering time, fruit development; and (3) decision support tools and modeling.
Dr. Raquel Sánchez-Pérez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- domestication
- transcription factors
- bHLH
- MYC
- MYB
- agronomic traits
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