Breeding Cereals for Improved Agronomic and Quality Traits under Adverse Environmental Conditions
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Genetics, Genomics and Breeding".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 5320
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cereal crops; wheat breeding; crop genetics; plant nutrition; biofortfication
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2. Center of Excellence for Biodiversity and Molecular Plant Breeding, Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: wheat; maize; molecular markers; breeding for yield and quality
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cereals are an important component of daily diets worldwide and play a key role in ensuring food security. To ensure food security, food production must increase by at least 60 percent to meet the needs of future populations. Along with this problem, future projections in global yield trends of cereals indicate a significant decline. The negative impacts of climate change resulting in biotic or abiotic stresses are the main cause of the decline in crop yields in recent years. Significant variation among genotypes and environments has been reported for different agronomic and quality traits of cereal crops, and their interaction has often been shown to contribute to a great proportion of overall trait variation. High variation in environmental conditions across locations and years, significantly influenced by increasing incidence of various biotic and abiotic stresses, usually increases the G × E component of variation and consequently decreases the heritability of a trait and its response to selection. Therefore, breeding efforts for increased stress tolerance can contribute significantly to the overall stability of grain yield and quality in cereal varieties.
This Special Issue (SI) aims to collect reliable information and experiences from around the world on genetic and breeding aspects of tolerance of cereal crops to biotic and abiotic stresses. The SI is open to research articles, opinions, reviews, and perspectives.
Welcome topics include, but are not limited to, agro-morphological and quality traits.
Dr. Valentina Španič
Prof. Dr. Hrvoje Šarčević
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cereals
- abiotic stress
- biotic stress
- agronomic traits
- grain yield
- grain quality
- genetics
- breeding
- genotype × environment interaction
- stability
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