Crop Molecular Breeding: Current Status and Future Directions
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 August 2024 | Viewed by 1232
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cotton biology; genomics; molecular breeding; plant noncoding RNAs; biostress tolerance
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Interests: cotton genetics; genomics; molecular breeding; genetic improvement
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the continuous advances in sequencing technology, the development of analytical tools for discovery, annotation and deciphering of genetic variants existing amongst diverse germplasm of every crop species, and precisely engineering target genes by genome editing, breeding new crop varieties is now entering a new era in which functional genetic variants can be rationally and rapidly combined and created as required to develop the next generation of crop varieties.
As an example, cotton (Gossypium spp.) is a multi-purpose crop, producing not only natural fiber for the global textile industry, but also oil and protein-rich seeds for downstream industries. Since the release of the first cotton reference genome (G. raimondii) in 2012, the genome sequences of 22 diploids and all 7 allotetraploids have been published, and thousands of accessions of both the diploid- and allotetraploid-cultivated cotton species have been re-sequenced. The genome data provide a rich source for investigating cotton evolution and finding genetic variants associated with important agronomic traits of cotton. As a result, not only marker-assisted selection but also genomic prediction has been adopted in cotton breeding, with the aim of increasing breeding efficiency and shortening the breeding cycle. Thus, we are launching a Special Issue on “Corp Molecular Breeding: Current Status and Future Directions” to present the accomplishments achieved in crop molecular genetics and genomics and to explore new opportunities in developing and deploying molecular tools in breeding the next generation of elite crop varieties.
This Special Issue will accept original research manuscripts reporting novel results on the topics mentioned above and covered by the keywords, as well as review and perspective articles on topics related to crop molecular breeding.
Dr. Qian-Hao Zhu
Prof. Dr. Jie Sun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- crop molecular breeding
- marker-assisted breeding
- genomics-enabled molecular breeding
- QTL mapping and annotation
- genome-wide association study
- genomic prediction and selection
- functional genomic variations
- gene editing
