Breeding for Abiotic Stress Resistance in Crops: Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Genotype Evaluation and Breeding".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 October 2024 | Viewed by 144
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant biotechnologies; genomics; molecular breeding; transcriptomics; abiotic stresses; plant response and tolerance; drought; salinity; genetic engineering; synthetic biology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental stresses dramatically affect crop yield and quality at the global level. Among others, drought and salinity are becoming particularly challenging in many regions worldwide. The extent of their impact on the profitability and sustainability of agricultural systems is even exacerbated by climate change, posing increasing food insecurity concerns and competition on natural resources.
To meet an increasing food demand from a growing human population, breeding more tolerant plants to environmental stressors is consistent with the strategy to develop more resilient agricultural systems.
This Special Issue focuses on the implementation of biotechnological tools and bioinformatic pipelines in innovative breeding strategies for abiotic stress tolerance in crops. This SI will include interdisciplinary studies embracing plant genetic and breeding, genomics and bioinformatics, plant biology and physiology, chemistry, statistics, modeling, and engineering. Manuscripts addressing open questions on plant abiotic stress responses and cutting-edge research on innovative breeding approaches for enhanced abiotic stress tolerance are welcome. Among others, the following themes are warmly encouraged: (a) implementing new crop breeding approaches for abiotic stress tolerance by integrating biotechnological strategies and conventional methods; (b) improving carbon sequestering capacity and climate resilience in plants; (c) genomic-based breeding strategies to improve complex traits; and (d) integrating phenomics and big data analysis to improve crop breeding strategies for enhanced tolerance.
These research articles will cover a broad range of crops. All types of articles, such as original research, opinions, and reviews, are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Antonio Di Matteo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- QTLs
- complex traits
- resilience
- advanced plant breeding
- genome editing
- genomic selection
- genome-wide association studies
- automation
- robotic engineering
- phenomic platforms
