Functional and Structural Genomics Studies for Plant Breeding
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2024 | Viewed by 998
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant genomics; genome sequencing; plant breeding; repetitive DNA; transposons
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: plant genetics; plant genomics; genome-wide association study; plant gene editing; plant transcriptomics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, many techniques have been developed to carry out both structural and functional genomic studies, allowing the discovery of the genetic basis of many useful traits. In fact, genomics studies can help better understand the evolution, development, and functional biology of plants, through the analysis of gene families, genetic variability, gene-environment interactions, and gene regulatory networks. Plant genomics and transcriptomics have many practical applications for agriculture, conservation, health, and industry. It can help identify and transfer desirable genes and alleles into crops, to increase their yield, their resistance to environmental stresses and diseases, and their nutritional quality. Moreover, structural and functional genomics data can be conveniently used to produce molecules of biotechnological interest, such as drugs, vaccines, biofuels, and materials, using plants as factories or sources of raw materials.
This Special Issue aims to gather information about new genomic data potentially useful for crop breeding, in order to obtaining, in a sustainable way, plants more adapted to consumers' and farmers' needs, with special, but not exclusive, reference to minor crops, for which genomic studies are still at an early stage.
Prof. Dr. Andrea Cavallini
Dr. Tommaso Giordani
Dr. Alberto Vangelisti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant transcriptomics
- genome sequencing
- plant gene function
- molecular plant breeding
- structural genomics
