Genetic Breeding Strategies for Field Crops Responding to Abiotic 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: 15 April 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: molecular breeding; marker assisted selection; omics, phenotyping; gene editing
Interests: molecular breeding; biotechnology; tissue culture; stress resilience
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Interests: plant metabolomics; plant-based food; climate change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change, with its increased frequency of extreme weather events like heatwaves, droughts, and salinity, represents a critical threat to global food security. This necessitates a major shift in crop production and breeding to ensure the resilience and stability of field crops against escalating abiotic stresses.
This Special Issue, "Genetic Breeding Strategies for Field Crops Responding to Abiotic Stress", compiles cutting-edge research focused on accelerating the development of climate-resilient field crops. It emphasizes the strategic convergence of precision genetics, advanced phenomics, and computational modeling.
This Issue moves beyond traditional quantitative breeding by harnessing the power of genomic selection, high-throughput phenotyping, and genome editing to dissect and manipulate complex stress tolerance traits. Topics covered include utilizing systems biology approaches to integrate 'omics' datasets, discovering novel tolerance genes, and synergistically using big data with machine learning or artificial intelligence for rapid trait estimation.
By bridging the gap between genetic discoveries and practical, accelerated breeding pipelines, this Special Issue offers valuable guidance for designing and implementing the resilient cropping systems essential for future food security.
Dr. Aleksandra Radanović
Dr. Dragana Miladinović
Dr. Dunja Šamec
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate-resilient crops
- abiotic stress
- genomic selection
- phenotyping
- omics
- genome editing
- machine learning
- artificial intelligence
- food security
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