Multiomics Helps Crop Improvement and Food Security
A special issue of Current Issues in Molecular Biology (ISSN 1467-3045). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 3501
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Interests: alfalfa genetics; gene regulation; salt stress; GWAS; gene family
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Dear Colleagues,
Food safety is a challenge and common mission for agricultural scientists all over the world. The report issued by FAO in 2018 states that: "By 2050, the world's population will reach 9.1 billion, 34% more than at present, and food production must be increased by 70%”. Therefore, it is necessary to improve crop production and crop resistance to different stresses. With the development of high-throughput sequencing technology, the detection technology of mono-omics has been widely studied and applied. However, mono-omics can not make researchers fully understand the growth and development process of crops. Multi-omics analysis is based on high-throughput components According to the different analysis objectives, the systematic biology research of analysis can be divided into genomics, phenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabonomics and ionomics. Different omics reflect the transcription, expression, translation, modification and physiological metabolism of genes in organisms from different levels. Its purpose is to achieve the complementarity of various data and enable researchers to have a more complete understanding of the expression information of organisms. At present, multi-omics analysis has played an important role in crop germplasm resources identification, key gene function research of important agronomic traits and assisted breeding. However, how to make full use of these massive data and its application in breeding are the main goals of the follow-up research of researchers. Therefore, this special issue mainly focuses on the following three aspects: New ideas and methods in multigroup analysis; The genetic basis of complex agronomic traits in crops was analyzed by multiomics; Application of multiomics analysis in crop breeding. The results of this special issue will help accelerate the genetic improvement of crops and food security.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- New methods or tools to integrate omics data from different source
- Genetic basis for plant complex traits by using the integration of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, microbiomics, and so on
- The new genetic selection (GS) strategies by using the multi omics data
- The new gene(s) identified by using multic omics data
- The future perspectives about the multiomics to improve crop improvement
Dr. Chen Lin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- crop improvement
- omics
- genomics
- phenomics
- transcriptomics
- proteomics, metabonomics
- ionomics
- gene function
- network
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