Advancing Climate Resilience in Horticultural Crops Through Omics Technologies
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: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 274
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Interests: tropical fruit; cultivar breeding; cultivation; physiology and biotechnology; microRNAs; transcriptomics; genomics; proteomics; metabolomics; genetics; fruit cultivar selection; fruit molecular biology
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Interests: tropical fruit; cultivar breeding; cultivation; physiology and biotechnology; microRNAs; transcriptomics; genomics; proteomics; metabolomics; genetics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increasing unpredictability of global climates poses a significant challenge to the sustainability and productivity of horticultural crops. These crops, which include a diverse range of fruits, vegetables, ornamentals, and spices, are integral to human nutrition, cultural traditions, and global economies. Yet, they are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, including alterations in temperature, precipitation patterns, and increased incidence of extreme weather events. In response, there is a pressing need to harness advanced multi-omics tools to enhance the resilience of these crops to changing environmental conditions.
Omics technologies, encompassing genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, phenomics, and metabolomics, offer unprecedented opportunities to deepen our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that underpin stress responses and adaptation in plants. By integrating these omics approaches, researchers can uncover complex gene networks and physiological pathways that confer resistance to abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, heat, and cold. This comprehensive understanding is crucial for the development of innovative strategies to improve crop resilience, ensuring food security and agricultural sustainability in the face of climate change.
This Special Issue aims to explore the integration of omics technologies into horticulture to develop crops that are resilient to the changing climate. As the planet faces unprecedented climatic shifts, ensuring the sustainability and productivity of horticultural crops becomes crucial. This issue will bring together research that utilizes genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and phenomics to address challenges in horticulture such as drought, heat stress, salinity, and disease pressures. Through a collection of innovative research articles, reviews, and case studies, we aim to highlight the latest advancements and methodologies in omics that contribute to the development of climate-resilient horticultural crops, ensuring food security and agricultural sustainability.
This Special Issue is supervised by Prof. Yonghua Qin and Prof. Guibing Hu and assisted by Dr. Irfan Ali Sabir (South China Agricultural University, China).
Suggested themes (but not limited to):
- Multi-omics based research to understand the biology of abiotic stress responses in Horticulture crops.
- Genomic selection and breeding for climate resilience.
- Proteomics and metabolomics in stress adaptation.
- Exploring the realms of whole-genome sequencing, conducting extensive genome-wide investigations, delving into transcriptomics, metabolomics, and proteomics evaluations.
- Quantitative genetics (QTL, GWAS, PWAS, epiGWAS, and genomic selection) to develop climate-resilient horticulture crops.
- Leveraging bioinformatics and gene function studies for the discovery of novel genes encoding stress resistance for stress endorsement.
- Emerging trends in genetics and genomics for understanding key pathways and key responsive genes controlling key traits in response to environmental cues.
Prof. Dr. Yonghua Qin
Prof. Dr. Guibing Hu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- horticultural crops
- climate change
- omics technologies
- stress responses
- abiotic stresses
- food security
- agricultural sustainability
- genomics
- transcriptomic
- proteomics
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