Vegetable Crops Breeding

Dear Colleagues,

Plant breeding faces the challenge of satisfying the increasing demand for vegetables at the global level by developing new cultivars with improved yields and enhanced quality, while making a more efficient use of resources (water, fertilizers, agrochemicals, energy) in a climate change scenario. Utilization of cultivated and wild genetic resources, application of developments resulting from advances in genomics, and gene editing, among other technologies, will help in the development of a new generation of vegetable crops cultivars adapted to the present and future challenges. Diversification and enhancement of neglected vegetables through breeding will contribute to reaching this demand. This Special Issue on vegetable crop breeding deals with the breeding of vegetable crops in a wide sense, including theoretical and practical advances ranging from the enhancement of cultivated and wild genetic resources to the application of new plant breeding technologies in vegetable crops breeding and development of new cultivars.

Dr. Mariola Plazas
Dr. Pietro Gramazio
Dr. Joan Casals
Dr. Joan Simó
Guest Editors

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