Genetic Research on Soybean Quality and Disease Resistance
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 1995
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soybean genomics and breeding
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soybean is the most economically important legume in the world, providing vegetable protein and ingredients for human and animal consumptions. Soybean seeds consist of about 40% protein and 20% oil, and improved oil and protein contents can increase the values of soybean. Nutritional and functional properties of soybeans are also affected by composition of amino acids or fatty acids in seeds. In addition, some anti-nutritional factors, such as trypsin inhibitors, phytate, and oligosaccharides, are important breeding goals because they negatively impact on the nutritional quality of soybean food.
Soybean diseases caused by various pathogens continuously suppress yield production in the world. A number of disease resistance genes and quantitative trait loci (QTL) against major pathogens were identified from a tremendous number of soybean genomic studies, and breeding of new resistant soybean varieties has been successful. However, the rapid evolution of such pathogens and newly emerging pathogens necessitates persistent efforts to seek new resistance germplasm and genes and to accumulate them into resistant soybean cultivars.
This Special Issue will therefore focus on the latest advances in the understanding of seed quality traits and disease resistance. Submissions of review or original research articles covering but not limited to the following themes are welcome:
(1) Genetic dissection of soybean quality traits and disease resistance, (2) soybean breeding for seed-related traits and disease resistance, (3) genotype environment interaction of seed compositions and (4) changes in virulence pathogens and their interaction with soybean varieties.
Dr. Sungwoo Lee
Dr. Kyujung Van
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- seed quality
- seed protein
- seed oil
- antinutrient
- disease resistance
- translational genomics
- genomics-assisted breeding
- genome-wide association
- linkage analysis
