Evaluation of Quality Traits of Crop Resources and Germplasm Innovation
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 February 2023) | Viewed by 3341
Special Issue Editors
Interests: crop germplasm; grain quality; food chemistry
Interests: identification of functional ingredients from plant sources; bioactivity evaluation; functional food development
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: crop germplasm; gene discovery; plant genome
Interests: cereal nutrition; risk factors in crops; quality safety and risk assessment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Crop germplasm, the material basis for crop breeding, is a strategic resource for the survival and development of human society. The occurrence of the development of social economics, population aging, and metabolic disease increasing all over the world, have promoted the need for high-quality food with healthy benefits. Therefore, the quality improvement has become one of the main objectives in crop breeding. Moreover, evaluation of quality traits and germplasm innovation are the basis for development of high-quality crop variety and important parts of crop germplasm research.
In recent years, as the rapid development of technologies of spectrum, chromatography, and mass spectrometry; molecular biology technology; multi-omics technology; artificial intelligence and information technology (big data and analytics); and research on evaluation of quality traits and germplasm innovation has entered a new stage. For instance, diversified, rapid, non-destructive, high-throughput, automated, and informationized techniques and models have been widely employed in the evaluation of quality traits of crop germplasms. The evaluation of quality traits has extended from nutritional quality to functional, processing, sensory, and others qualities (forage, ornamental, etc.). The technology of gene editing (e.g., CRISPR) is already used in germplasm innovation.
In this Research Topic, we welcome the submission of original research papers and reviews that cover wide research topics, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Identification and evaluation of quality traits of crop germplasm resources;
- Genetic diversity analysis of quality traits of crop germplasm resources;
- Effect of genotype–environment interactions on quality traits of crop germplasm resources;
- Innovation and utilization of high-quality germplasm;
- Methodological study: development or improvement of the methods of quality traits evaluation as well as germplasm innovation.
Dr. Peiyou Qin
Dr. Xiushi Yang
Dr. Jing Wu
Dr. Li Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- crop germplasm
- quality traits
- identification
- evaluation
- germplasm innovation
- genetic diversity
- genotype-environment interactions
