Application of Molecular Breeding and Gene Editing Technologies in Brassica Crops

A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Genetics, Genomics, Breeding, and Biotechnology (G2B2)".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 457

Special Issue Editors

Department of Horticulture, Texas A and M AgriLife Research Center, Weslaco, TX 78596, USA
Interests: plant breeding; genetics; genomics; transcriptomics; metabolomics; phenomics; plant stress biology; plant physiology and molecular biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics Laboratory, Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
Interests: molecular breeding; genetics; plant nutritional genomics
Department of Biological Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
Interests: plant stress biology; cell signaling; plant–microbial interaction; gene transformation
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Brassica crops play key roles in global agriculture and horticulture. As these crops produce high-value oil sources and nutritional properties, and possess pharmaceutical efficacy, etc., they have recently become among the most widely cultivated crops. Important abiotic stresses, including drought, heat, cold and salinity, and biotic stresses, such as fungi, viruses, bacteria, nematodes, and insects, cause great damage to these crop’s qualitative and quantitative characteristics. To address these challenges, researchers should use modern molecular breeding techniques such as marker-assisted selection (MAS), marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC), marker-assisted recurrent selection (MARS), genome-wide selection (GWS) or genomic selection (GS) to assist in the selection of elite lines which will address these problems. In addition to that, gene editing techniques such as restriction enzymes, zinc finger nucleases, and transcription activator-like effector nucleases, in addition to CRISPR-Cas gene editing and base editing, will be of great help in improving the existing genetic makeup of these plants. These are only several examples of the research topics which will be dealt with in this Special Issue. Researchers are also welcome to submit review papers on the applications of the above topics for the improvement of brassica crops.

Dr. Jana Jeevan Rameneni
Prof. Dr. Yong Pyo Lim
Prof. Dr. Man-Ho Oh
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • brassica crops
  • Special Issue
  • review paper
  • marker-assisted selection (MAS)
  • marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC)
  • marker-assisted recurrent selection (MARS)
  • genome-wide selection (GWS) or genomic selection (GS)
  • restriction enzymes
  • zinc finger nucleases
  • transcription activator-like effector nucleases
  • CRISPR-Cas gene editing
  • base editing

Published Papers

There is no accepted submissions to this special issue at this moment.
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