Genetics and Breeding of Horticulture Crops—2nd Edition
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 February 2025 | Viewed by 439
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Interests: horticultural crop; biotechnology; genetics; genomics; genotype; phenotype
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Interests: horticultural crop; abiotic stress; gene cloning; genomics; biotechnology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Horticultural crops contain numerous health-promoting phytochemicals, such as vitamins, flavonoids, polyphenols, and other secondary metabolites, that play a crucial role in the global food supply and human health. The yield and quality of horticultural crops depends on their intrinsic genetics and genome characteristics, as well as the environmental conditions. The discovery of genes that could enhance the yield, quality, and resistance of horticultural crops has unlocked the potential to accelerate the molecular breeding of horticultural crops, particularly via continuous advancements in genome data, molecular markers, gene discovery, gene editing and multi-omics technology, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, interactomics, and phenomics. The utilization of all these novel techniques in combination with the analysis of genomic data using bioinformatics tools will contribute to an enhanced understanding of the function of various agronomic traits of interest, as well as horticultural crop breeding.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect the latest advances in understanding the genetics and breeding of horticulture crops by integration with multi-omics, revealing molecular mechanisms of agronomically important traits in horticultural crops, such as yield, quality, and resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses. We particularly encourage research derived from the development or application of new omics technologies in horticultural crops as well as new methods for the analysis, mining, and visualization of horticultural crop omics datasets.
We welcome submissions of all article types on, but are not limited to, the following subtopics:
Genetic and functional characterization of genes regulating horticultural crop growth and development;
Development of novel omics technologies for horticultural crop improvement, software, and algorithms;
Genetic improvement in horticultural crops using gene editing and other modern biotechnologies;
Integration with multi-omics revealing the molecular basis of important agronomic traits in horticultural crops.
Dr. Jun Tang
Dr. Liwei Gao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- horticultural crop
- biotechnology
- gene function
- genetics
- genomics
- genotype
- phenotype
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