Conventional vs. Modern Techniques in Horticultural Crop Breeding
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural and Floricultural Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 3261
Special Issue Editors
Interests: postharvest biology; ethylene signaling; sex determination; molecular farming; auxin transport; disease resistance; plant biotechnology; plant genome editing; plant molecular biology
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Dear Colleagues,
Crop breeding is crucial in agriculture as it helps us to obtain new varieties with desirable traits such as yield, disease resistance, and tolerance to environmental conditions. Through breeding, crop productivity, sustainability, and adaptation, we can ensure food security and enhance support for the ever-growing global population's needs. Traditionally, the major methods of breeding have been crossing and selection for new superior genotype combinations that result in hybrid varieties or synthetic varieties. In recent years, research and development on crop molecular genetics and functional genomics has advanced rapidly all over the world. Molecular marker breeding, transgenic breeding, and molecular design breeding have gradually become the mainstream technologies of crop breeding worldwide in modern crop breeding.
This Special Issue (SI) will provide a brief overview on the applications of both traditional and modern breeding in horticultural crops. We aim to record the most recent breeding works on fruit, vegetable, and ornamental production. Scientific research data on new species or varieties of fruits, vegetables, or flowers are welcome. Contributions to this SI may focus on, but are not limited to, four major topics: (1) breeding strategies, (2) genetic improvement at the molecular level, (3) valuable and desirable traits, and (4) phenotyping.
Prof. Dr. Yi-Yin Do
Guest Editor
Dr. Su-Ying Yeh
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- genetic improvement
- hybridization
- selection
- molecular marker breeding
- transgenic breeding
- design breeding
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