Enhancing Disease Resistance and Crop Quality through Innovative Breeding Approaches
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Genetics, Genomics, Breeding, and Biotechnology (G2B2)".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 3474
Special Issue Editors
Interests: potato-nematode interactions; nematode resistance; plant breeding
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Horticulturae is launching a Special Issue that calls for manuscript submissions covering topics related to “Enhancing Disease Resistance and Crop Quality through Innovative Breeding Approaches”.
With the increase in the global population, breeders are challenged to develop improved crop varieties that could combat the growing food demand. One of the major hurdles in achieving food security is the extensive crop losses due to plant diseases caused by pests and pathogens. With the growing concern of environmental and human health risks posed by the extensive use of chemicals to control plant pests and pathogens, breeding crop varieties with natural resistance has gained much attention. Although conventional breeding is the backbone of crop domestication and improvement, it is a very long and tedious process. The advancements and affordability of sequencing technology and bioinformatic approaches warrant enhancements in applying breeding strategies for crop improvement.
This Special Issue invites research articles, short communications, novel protocols/methods, data analysis pipelines or packages and review articles addressing the utilization and advancement of Breeding Strategies and Bioinformatic Tools for Improving Disease Resistance and Crop Quality in all the major crops of the world.
Dr. Sapinder Bali
Dr. Shailendra Goel
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant breeding
- bioinformatic tools
- disease resistance
- food security
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