Proteomics Technologies in Crop Improvement toward Sustainable Agriculture

Dear Colleagues,

Background & history of this topic: The need for the sustainable production food and responding to a changing climate are driving advances in modern crop breeding programs. Crop domestication has always relied on traditional phenotypic selection to obtain dominant traits, but genomic interventions could accelerate advances in crop improvement. However, linking phenotypes to genotypes remains a significant challenge in the improvement of modern crops. Proteins execute direct biological functions, which require precise localization, the formation of complex high-level structures, post-translational modifications, and interaction with other proteins, which cannot be revealed by gene- and transcription-based studies. Therefore, proteomics plays an important role in deciphering functional mechanisms and enables us to enhance crops.

Aim and scope of the Special Issue: This Special Issue intends to provide novel insights into the application of proteomics technologies in crop improvement toward sustainable agriculture, including multi-omics integration analysis and related research on post-translational proteome modification (like acetylation, phosphorylation, ubiquitination and glycosylation modification), and also the exploration of new technologies for proteomics research.

Cutting-edge research: This Special Issue is devoted to genome design breeding research based on proteomics-related approaches. The Special Issue encourages the submission of groundbreaking work by researchers across disciplines.

What kind of papers we are soliciting:  Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are welcome.

Prof. Zhiguo E
Prof. Dr. Chen Chen
Dr. Lijuan Wu
Guest Editors

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• proteomics
• crop improvement
• biological breeding
• bioinformatics