Agricultural Biotechnology and Resilience Capacity of Wheat Genetic Resources
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 5601
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wheat genetic diversity; durum wheat breeding and genetics; QTL mapping; genome-wide association study (GWAs); yield and grain quality
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Climate resilience of crops has become critical to stabilizing food supply especially in major crops such as wheat. The resilience of yield performance has a strong genetic basis although phenotypic outcome exhibits a strong environmental interaction component. Breeding a wheat ideotype incorporating tolerance to climate change, disease resistance, good agronomic performance and improved grain yield and quality will help meet the future demands.
A powerful strategy is to integrate “omics” approaches to explore wheat genetic resources to identify not only promising traits for direct breeding, but principally the key elements of the adaptive capacity. Wheat landraces and wild relatives have often been shown a rich source of diversity lost in modern varieties including alleles with high adaptive capacity to different environments. Unfortunately, this wealth of diversity has not yet been fully exploited.
A possible solution to fill the gap comes from biotechnology tools such as genomic, metabolomics and proteomic approaches to be integrated with high throughput phenotyping and artificial intelligence tools for analysing this huge mass of data. This is the new frontier to define a wheat plant model able to cope with climate change and the increasing food need.
Dr. Giacomo Mangini
Prof. Dr. Andreas Katsiotis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wheat genetic resources
- tolerance to climate changes
- grain yield
- grain quality
- adaptive capacity
- plasticity
- breeding methodologies
