Cytogenetics and Agronomic Traits of Crops
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Cell Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2023) | Viewed by 9086
Special Issue Editors
Interests: molecular biology; genetics; plant biology; plant physiology; genomics; PCR; cloning; plant biotechnology; electrophoresis; DNA; in situ hybridization; FISH; GISH; chromosome rearrangements; marker assisted breeding; repetitive DNA; cytogenetic markers; PCR markers; whole genome sequencing; chromosome markers; tandem repeats; satellite repeats; intergeneric hybridization; distant hybridization
Interests: wheat; triticale; triticeae; wild wheat related species; wide hybridization; intergeneric hybridization; distant hybridization; wheat-wheatgrass hybrids; dwarfing genes; sequencing; repetitive DNA; cytogenetic markers; PCR markers; whole genome sequencing; chromosome markers; tandem repeats; satellite repeats; agronomic value traits; Rht; della; gibberellin sensitivity; pseudoroegneria; dasypyrum; thinopyrum; elytrigia; agropyron; elymus; in situ hybridization; FISH; GISH; chromosome rearrangements; marker assisted breeding; marker assisted selection; recombinant inbred lines
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
During the breeding process, new forms of plants with higher adaptability, productivity and quality arise, which is associated with significant changes at various levels of chromatin. Chromosome engineering is a method that makes it possible to carry out prebreeding of the initial material, monitor the inheritance of chromosomal rearrangements, determine the probability of transferring valuable chromatin into the genome of a cultivated species, and control the dosage of alien chromatin introgressions. Thanks to the development of Next Generation Sequencing technologies and associated bioinformatics analysis, the improvement of non-denaturing FISH methods and the use of oligo- and multi-oilgo probes and cytogenetic approaches have made significant progress in recent years and are in demand in the breeding improvement of crops. A Special Issue of the MDPI journal Plants entitled “Cytogenetics and Agronomic Traits of Crops” is dedicated to achievements in the field of chromosomal engineering of cultivated plants, the study of the influence of the state of chromosomes and chromatin on agronomically valuable traits, as well as the development of tools for the cytogenetic characterization of crop plants.
We also invite you to publish papers with negative results of studies in which, subject to all the rules of the experiment, the method gives a consistently reproducible lack of the expected result. This is especially true during the transition from vegetative experiment to field conditions when previously established relationships and correlations are violated and lose reproducibility. Usually dismissed, these results, in our opinion, can be useful so that future researchers can use your negative experience.
You are welcome to submit your experimental studies and critical reviews if they contain, but are not limited to the following topics:
- Development of new more advanced protocols and their modifications for the preparation of chromosome preparations, banding and/or in situ hybridization procedures for the study of chromosomes in crops;
- Development and localization of new chromosomal markers (including using NGS-data and bioinformatics) for the study of agricultural crops;
- Study of the initial breeding material at the stage of prebreeding and its evolutionary and population characteristics;
- Karyotyping and karyotype diversity of agricultural crops;
- Cytogenetic characterization of valuable breeding forms, including those obtained by distant hybridization;
- Studying the influence of chromosomal rearrangements and epigenetic changes in chromatin on economically valuable traits of agricultural crops;
- Cytogenetic study of polyploidy of cultivated plants and their wild relatives in the context of breeding improvement of agricultural crops;
- Microdissection and sequencing of individual chromosomes associated with valuable economic traits.
Dr. Mikhail Divashuk
Dr. Pavel Yu. Kroupin
Guest Editors
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