Molecular Breeding of Vegetable Crops
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 1652
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Cucurbitaceae crops; molecular breeding; agronomic traits; epigenetic regulation; epigenetic mechanisms; heavy metal tolerance; metal ion absorption and distribution; cadmium
Interests: germplasm conservation; molecular breeding; mutagenesis; plant biotechnology; plant tissue culture
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Interests: agricultural biotechnology; genetic engineering; genomics; plant stress biology; new plant breeding tools
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, research into crops’ molecular biology has expanded to all aspects of vegetable science. Vegetables are an important source of nutrients and energy in food. With improvements in living standards, people pay more attention to the quality and output of agricultural products. Therefore, it is one of the most fundamental tasks of scientific research to further improve the quality and output of vegetable products to meet the needs of people regarding high-quality agricultural products. The most practical and effective method is fine variety breeding. Molecular breeding is an important means to speed up the breeding process, and gene mapping is the basis of modern molecular breeding research. Due to the narrow genetic background of vegetable crops, the relevant molecular biology research progresses slowly until the whole genome sequence information is decoded. This Special Issue aims to collect research articles and review papers on the strategies and methods of gene mapping of important characters of vegetable crops and that outline the research progress of gene initial location and fine mapping, as well as papers describing recent developments in the pervasive roles of molecular biology in vegetable development, integrating metabolism, and plant–environment interactions.
Dr. Shengjun Feng
Dr. Shri Mohan Jain
Prof. Dr. Penna Suprasanna
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- molecular biology
- abiotic stress
- biotic stress
- map-based cloning
- genetic breeding
- genome design breeding
