Recent Advancements and Current Challenges in Crop Improvement: A Physiological and Molecular Persepective
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 November 2021) | Viewed by 7538
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Next generation sequencing, Genomics; Proteomics; Evolutionary developmental genetics; Plant molecular interaction
Interests: floriculture; transplants (micropropagated and plug); silicon in horticulture; plant factory; protected horticulture; hydroponics
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Dear Colleagues,
Current challenges on plant adaptability towards world population, global climate changes, reduced agricultural land, yield loss, abiotic stresses such as salt, drought, and temperature, and biotic stresses such as insects and pests can be solved only by deeper understanding on plant molecular mechanisms. Molecular biology-based approaches widen the perceptions of complex plant biochemical and metabolic pathway. Forward and reverse genetics are inevitable to determine the role of genes to the phenotype in crop improvement. Advancements in high-throughput sequencing offer a comprehensive knowledge on evolution, polyploidization, and domestication of plants. Gene targeting, transduction, and RNA interference followed by CRISPR-Cas9 are the modern cutting-edge techniques which can greatly assist the enhancement of crop yield and quality. Furthermore, in plant biology the big data sets produced by computational techniques are very much helpful in population studies for traits development. Taken together, the present special issue would like to provide a platform for the inter-disciplinary physiological and molecular studies aimed for the enhancement of growth and development of crop improvement.
The purpose of this special issue is collecting the high-quality papers deals with solution to overcome current challenges in crop improvement using recent molecular advancements. Topics of this special issue cover wide-aspects in plant science research but not limited to the following: Plant physiology and development, cell Signaling, epigenetics, omics-based strategies, stress tolerance etc.
Dr. Prabhakaran Soundararajan
Prof. Dr. Byoung Jeong
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Plant physiology
- Molecular biology
- Plant cell signaling
- Bioinformatics
- Genomics
- Proteomics
- Polyploidy
- Evolution
- Stress response
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