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Special Issue "Genetic Resources of Cereal and Oilseed Crops for Sustainable Breeding and Food Security II"

A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2024 | Viewed by 952

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Irina N. Anisimova

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N. I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources, 42-44 Bolshaya Morskaya Street, St. Petersburg 190000, Russia
Interests: genetic diversity; seed storage proteins (polymorphism, genetic control, genomic organization); cytoplasmic male sterility–restoration of fertility (CMS-Rf) genetic systems; theoretical and applied aspects of interspecific hybridization (with special emphasis on sunflower)
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Dr. Svetlana Goryunova

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1. Laboratory of Cell and Genomic Technologies, Russian Potato Research Center, 23 Lorkh Str., Kraskovo, 140051 Moscow Region, Russia
2. Laboratory of Plant Genetics, N.I.Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences. 119334 Moscow, Russia
Interests: crop genetics and genomics; plant breeding; biodiversity and evolution
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Dr. Eugene Radchenko

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Department of Genetics, Federal Research Center, The N. I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources, 42,44 Bolshaya Morskaya Street, 19000 St.Petersburg, Russia
Interests: cultivated plants and wild relatives; genetic diversity; plant breeding; resistance to harmful organisms
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Cereal and oilseed crops are indispensable for the existence of humankind. They are ubiquitously used for human and animal nutrition, medicinal purposes, and obtaining ecologically friendly materials. Genebanks play an important role in the conservation and the study of plant genetic resources. Collections of genetic resources of cereal and oilseed crops conserved in Genebanks include thousands of accessions that represent old and modern varieties, landraces, breeding lines, and also wild species that can be used for breeding new genotypes with valuable traits.

Due to the domestication "bottleneck" effect in human history, the genetic basis of a number of cereal and oilseed crop species is comparatively narrow. Hybridization with landraces and wild species significantly facilitates the broadening of the genetic diversity of breeding material for resistance to harmful organisms and tolerance to abiotic stressors. Distant hybridization may bring completely new traits that can revolutionize crop breeding and production. As an example, the phenomenon of cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) and fertility restoration, which is an important factor of speciation during plant evolution, has gained new significance as the basis for seed  production in heterotic hybrid breeding.

The second volume is designed to collect scientific papers on cereal and oilseed crops. We welcome original research, review articles, and communications.

Dr. Irina N. Anisimova
Dr. Svetlana Goryunova
Dr. Eugene Radchenko
Guest Editors

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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Plants is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • cereal and oilseed plants
  • genetics and genomics
  • biodiversity and evolution
  • distant hybridization agronomically important traits
  • CMS-Rf genetic systems

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Bread Wheat Landraces Adaptability to Low-Input Agriculture
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Evangelos Korpetis
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Elissavet Ninou
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Ioannis Mylonas
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Georgia Ouzounidou
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Ioannis N. Xynias
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Athanasios G. Mavromatis
Plants 2023, 12(13), 2561; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12132561 - 06 Jul 2023
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Bread wheat landraces were an important source of biodiversity used in agriculture before the widespread adoption of high-yielding commercial cultivars adapted to high inputs. Could future agriculture exploit these landraces in different cropping systems in organic or lower-input environments? A two-year field trial [...] Read more.
Bread wheat landraces were an important source of biodiversity used in agriculture before the widespread adoption of high-yielding commercial cultivars adapted to high inputs. Could future agriculture exploit these landraces in different cropping systems in organic or lower-input environments? A two-year field trial was conducted to evaluate grain yield, agronomic performance, and grain quality of bread wheat landraces under different cropping systems, including low-input/organic/conventional environments. Significant variability was found for almost all characteristics among landraces, which makes landraces valuable sources of genetic variation for breeding programs aimed at achieving high and consistent production as well as high-quality products in low-input/organic environments. Additionally, landraces play a crucial role in expanding the genetic diversity of cultivated bread wheat and mitigating biodiversity erosion, thereby enabling crops to better withstand the challenges of low-input/organic agriculture. The landrace “Xilokastro Lamias” had the highest yield among the landraces evaluated in the first growing season (2.65 t·ha−1) and one of the highest yields (2.52 t·ha−1) of all genotypes in the second growing season, which shows promising potential as a starting material in breeding programs targeting high and stable yields. GGE biplot analysis identified the landrace ”Xilokastro Lamias”, along with commercial cultivars “Yecora E” and “Panifor”, as suitable candidates for direct use in low-input/organic wheat farming systems to achieve enhanced productivity. In the conventional environment (C2-IPGRB), commercial cultivars showed the highest values (3.09 to 3.41 ton·ha−1). Of the landraces, only the X4 showed a high GY (3.10 ton·ha−1) while the other landraces had ~33–85% lower yield. In the organic environment (O2-IPGRB), the highest productivity was found in the commercial cultivar X5 and the landrace X4. Commercial cultivars X8 and X7 showed ~68% reduction in GY in the organic environment compared to the conventional, while this reduction was half for the landraces. Finally, the reduction in grain yield between conventional and organic environments was observed to be 45% for commercial cultivars, while it was only half for landraces. This finding confirms the adaptability of landraces to organic agriculture. Full article
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