Molecular Techniques for Modern Plant Breeding
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 95
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant genetics; plant nutrition; breeding; molecular markers; NGS (next-generation sequencing); PGPR
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Interests: plant genetics and breeding; molecular-assisted selection (MAS); vegetable crops (mainly tomato and eggplant); abiotic stress; nitrogen use efficiency (NUE); genetic structure of plant biodiversity; genomics; transcriptomics; genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS)
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Interests: bioinformatics; plant genetics; nitrogen use efficiency (NUE); vegetable crops (mainly durum wheat, vitis vinifera and tomato); abiotic stress response; metagenomics and soil–plant interaction
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, conventional methods and molecular tools were successfully adopted in plant breeding to improve key agronomic traits in crops. However, changes in climate, the reduced land area available for food production, and the growing human population have forced rapid changes in the global food supply that the conventional breeding approaches are not guaranteed to accommodate.
Recently, omics technologies sustained the development of high-throughput screening approaches to speed up trait improvement in crops with a new evolution of plant breeding, more able to clarify the relationship between genotype and phenotype. Genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, proteomics, and phenomics, supported by bioinformatics approaches, are helping to understand the molecular basis of complex traits and improving the knowledge about the key mechanisms behind crop features. The omics-assisted breeding shows advantages, with a positive impact on genetic crop improvement, allowing the plant geneticists to discover genes, regulatory sequences, and markers useful for a more powerful marker-assisted selection (MAS). Omics technologies may furnish plant breeders with the opportunity of “tailoring” new plant varieties, focusing on bolstering resilience by improving tolerance/resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses and/or increasing the yield of higher-quality plants for a low-impact, sustainable, and green agriculture, providing also social and environmental benefits.
This Special Issue of Plants aims to publish original research articles, reviews, or shorter perspective articles on all the aspects related to omics approaches for advancing the knowledge and the genetic dissection of agronomic complex traits of interest, as well as elucidating the role of plant/bacteria interaction to overcome stress (abiotic and biotic) and to support plant growth, reducing the impact on the environment. Studies applying omics technologies and exploring their possible integration through bioinformatic approaches as tools to support a low-impact and sustainable agriculture are welcome.
Dr. Francesco Mercati
Dr. Francesco Sunseri
Dr. Guglielmo Puccio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- omics
- abiotic and biotic stress tolerance
- sustainable agriculture
- PGPR
- QTLs
- crop breeding
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