Legumes: Domestication, Plant–Microbe Interaction, Stress Resistance and Breeding
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Physiology and Crop Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 803
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant genetic resources and diversity; molecular breeding; adaptation to abiotic stress
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Dear Colleagues,
The legume family is one of the largest and most diverse group of plants, and legume crops, including soybean, beans, and other pulses, are major sources of human food and animal feed with rich nutrition today. They have also played a key role in sustainable agriculture systems, with their biological nitrogen fixation function, since ancient times. Moreover, grain legumes were domesticated in parallel with cereals in several regions of the world and formed the economic basis of early farming cultures, and great diversity in some legume crops has been retained since their domestication. However, their adaptation roles and utilization potentials are not clear in the changing climate and soil microbial environment. On the other hand, a variety of pathogens and stress factors severely affect the growth and development of leguminous plants, thereby affecting yield and quality. Hence, this Special Issue of Plants will connect plant diversity and stress resistance with the fields of genetics and breeding to deepen the knowledge of plant adaptation to biotic and abiotic stress, and discover the genes that can improve host tolerance for breeding utilization. The scope includes the following:
- Pheno-genotypic changes during the evolution and domestication of legumes.
- Morpho-physiological features of legumes under stress condition.
- Comparative genomics of legume plants.
- Legume defense responses to pathogen infection.
- Adaptation mechanisms to abiotic stress.
- Beneficial soil microbes and plant stress resistance.
- Resistance gene discovery and breeding utilization.
- New breeding techniques for legume resistance breeding.
Prof. Dr. Tuanjie Zhao
Dr. Na Guo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- legume plants
- domestication
- defense against pathogens
- rhizobacteria
- adaptation to abiotic stress
- resistance breeding
