Chromosome Engineering in Plants: Genetics, Breeding, Evolution
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 2398
Special Issue Editor
Interests: incorporating genetic diversity for crop plants improvement; introduction of agrobiodiversity into cropping systems; better understanding of structure, function and evolution of crop plant genomes; application of plant biotechnology methods for plant breeding purposes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Chromosome engineering in plants aims at the introduction of chromatin fragments with a desirable genes or loci, or changes in chromosome structure that increase plants’ end value. It is layered on a constant background of conventional plant breeding. It is an alternative technology to the gene-editing tool box, which is growing in importance as global climate change raises new challenges for agriculture. This special issue presents the current state of knowledge and directions of future prebreeding studies of plant chromosome manipulations. It covers the recent findings concerning chromosome manipulations and induced aberrations for plant breeding purposes. We are welcome all review articles, regular research articles, communications, and short notes in the field connected with creation of new chromosome constructs, chromosome segments introgressions from wild relatives, B-chromosomes or mini—chromosomes analysis etc. This issue describes the available techniques of chromosome manipulation including chromosome fragmentation, fusion of fragments into chromosome structures, induced recombination, etc and methods for their analysis and visualization.
Dr. Michał Kwiatek
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- B-chromosomes, breeding
- chromosome additions
- chromosome engineering chromosome substitutions
- chromosome translocations
- chromosome deletions
- compensation/non-compensation translocation reciprocal translocations
