Metabolic Regulation and Gene Expression of Crops under Stress
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Genetics, Genomics and Breeding".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 July 2023) | Viewed by 2180
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change is negatively impacting not only food security, but also agricultural ecosystems. Frequent and intensified changes in extreme weather events make it hard to maintain sustainable agricultural production. One effective means of improving crop production and quality is through the development of stress-resistant cultivars.
In response to adverse environmental stressors, crops undergo adaptation, i.e., long-term evolutionary changes, and acclimation, i.e., short-term adjustment processes. Understanding the underlying dynamics and mechanisms of such alterations that enable crops to survive stressful environments and evaluating genetic variation in stress tolerance are prerequisites for breeding stress-resistant cultivars.
Targeted metabolite profiling provides a functional link between the pre-defined intermediate or final products of crop responses and environmental changes such as biotic and abiotic stresses. Furthermore, when metabolomics is integrated with other profiling technologies, such as transcriptomics and proteomics, it becomes an even more invaluable means of evaluating and screening germplasm collections for crop breeding programs.
This Special Issue focuses on the metabolic regulation and gene expression of crops under stress and the evaluation of the germplasm for crop breeding purposes.
Research articles can cover a broad range of crops, including not only agronomic crops but also horticultural crops such as vegetables, fruits, ornamentals, and lawn grasses.
Dr. Jinyoung Barnaby
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metabolomics
- transcriptomics
- abiotic stress
- biotic stress
- crop breeding
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