Genomics of Biotic and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Cereals
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 509
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wheat genomics and biotechnology
Interests: crop biotechnology and genomics
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Dear Colleagues,
Cereals like maize, wheat and rice serve as staple food for most people worldwide. Therefore, there is a continuous need to develop cultivars/varieties that can withstand in adverse climatic changes, including biotic and abiotic stresses. With the advent of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology, various genomics resources like RNA Sequencing (RNA-Seq) data, high throughput SNP genotyping data, genomic predictions for different traits and reference level genome assemblies are now available for these crops. This has also facilitated the development of pangenomes for both, the wild and cultivated accessions. The traits associated with environmental stresses are highly complex and generally regulated by many genes/QTLs. While a large number of QTL are already identified for these traits, they have still not been utilized completely for variety development. In this special issue, we welcome research papers, reviews, and short communications that are focused on the following themes:
- Genetic mapping (GWAS and interval mapping) for biotic and abiotic stresses in cereals
- Exploration of genetic diversity for agronomically important traits
- Use of crop wild relatives for trait discovery and improvement
- Precision mapping using high density linkage maps
- Functional gene validation using overexpression and gene knockout approaches
- Development of germplasm resources (deletion panels, radiation hybrid populations) for trait discovery
- RNA-seq analysis for identification of differentially expressed genes under different biotic or abiotic stresses
- Marker-assisted selection (MAS) and genomic selection (GS)
- Integration of genomic approaches for developing resilient cereal varieties.
Dr. Gautam Saripalli
Dr. Vijay Gahlaut
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cereals
- genetic mapping
- biotic and abiotic stress
- wild germplasm
- next generation sequencing
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