Progress in Horticultural Crops - from Genotype to Phenotype
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural and Floricultural Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2024) | Viewed by 25047
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Interests: vegetable biotechnology; abiotic stress response; vegetable quality regulation; hormones in horticultural plants
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Interests: horticultural crop germplasm enhancement; abiotic stress; organ formation; fruit development
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Interests: plant growth regulators; circadian clock; plant biotechnology; plant genetics and breeding
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Horticultural plants play an irreplaceable role in satisfying human nutrition, pleasure and other aspects. There are some excellent traits in horticultural plants, including plant type structure, nutrient enrichment, color change, organ development, etc. In recent years, new progress has been made in the research on the phenotype variation of horticultural plants and the genotype changes behind it, which will effectively accelerate the rate of production of more nutritious, happier and more interesting horticultural products for human beings. In recent years, new technologies are increasingly being used to bridge the genotype-to-phenotype gap in crop selection.
This Special Issue focuses on recent progress in addressing phenotype variation and their underlying genotype basis in horticultural crops:
- all types of omics, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and phenomics;
- Genetic engineering and genome editing;
- Organ formation and development and their genetic basis;
- Genetic analysis of tolerance or resistance;
- Genome biology and evolution;
- Genetic basis of quality and production;
- Stable and transient transformation technology.
Dr. Guanglong Wang
Prof. Dr. Lijun Ou
Prof. Dr. Aisheng Xiong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- horticultural crop
- genetics
- biotechnology
- genotype
- phenotype
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