Functional Genomics for Crop Improvement
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 156
Special Issue Editors
Interests: molecular breeding; functional genomics
Interests: genome editing; functional genomics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Global climate change, population growth, and resource shortages have brought unprecedented challenges to crop production, and conventional breeding based on phenotypic selection can no longer meet the needs of rapid and precise crop improvement. In recent years, with the flourishing development of genomic, transcriptome, proteomic, and metabolomic approaches, functional genomics has become the core field of crop life science research, providing strong scientific and technological support for the efficient improvement of crop traits, such as rice, maize, wheat, soybean and sorghum.
In this Special Issue, we focus on the application of functional genomics in the improvement of crop yield, quality, biotic and abiotic stress response, and nutrient-use efficiency traits, as well as the important breakthroughs made by cutting-edge technologies such as genome editing and genomic selection in the study of crop functional genomics. We therefore welcome interdisciplinary high-quality studies conducted in different crop fields. Submissions of original research reports, reviews, perspectives/opinions, and methodology articles are all welcome.
Dr. Xiaojiao Hu
Dr. Jinjie Zhu
Dr. Silong Sun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- functional analysis
- genomics
- transcriptomics
- proteomics
- epigenomics
- technologies
- next-generation sequencing
- genome-editing
- crop improvement
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