GMO and New Breeding Techniques for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 1976
Special Issue Editor
Interests: abiotic stress; ion homeostasis; potassium transport; drought stress; biostimulants
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Abiotic stress is one of the major threats to agriculture and concomitantly to food production. Many crops have a narrow margin of tolerance to abiotic stress. Traditional plant breeding has been used to improve this tolerance but has a limited margin of action, circumscribed to the genetic pool within each or closely related species. Most of the advances in plant molecular biology have been carried out in model plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana, but the majority of this knowledge has not been applied yet to agronomy. At present, many crop genomes are available, and we have new systems biology and molecular biology techniques that enable a deep study of the molecular basis of abiotic stress in crops, as well as the application of knowledge generated in recent years to increase agronomical yield under adverse environmental conditions and climate change. In this topic, we will publish recent advances on:
1) Basic knowledge on the molecular basis of abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants.
2) Systems biology approaches to study abiotic stress in crop plants.
3) Description of the molecular basis underlying the effect of natural products, biostimulants, or mycorrhization on crop adaptation or tolerance to abiotic stress;
4) Description of novel GMO crops and its performance under abiotic stress conditions;
5) Application of new breeding techniques, including CRISPR/Cas9 to increase agronomical yield under abiotic stress conditions.
Dr. Jose M. Mulet
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- GMO crops
- CRISPR
- drought stress tolerance
- salt tolerance
- abiotic stress
- cold stress tolerance
- new breeding techniques
