Women’s Special Issue Series: Plant Breeding
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2023) | Viewed by 398
Special Issue Editor
Interests: diversity in plant genetic resources (PGR); durum wheat breeding and genetics; genomic approaches to understand the genetic basis of complex traits
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to increase the visibility of women in science, especially those involved in plant breeding. It could be said that "plant breeding is woman". Agriculture, in fact, began about 11,000 or more years ago by women who took care of the cultivation and selection of cultivated species.
Today, as in the past, breeding aims to generate better varieties, carefully selecting crops for target traits year after year to develop the best new product on the market, in order to feed families, end hunger and improve farmers’ income. Great efforts are needed today to respond immediately to climate change to safeguard the ability of food systems to ensure sufficient global security.
In this Special Issue, work conducted by women will be accepted to enhance the gender equality and give prominence to the exceptional contributions of the research being conducted by female scientists. Original articles and reviews that cover topics related to the use of plant breeding techniques to identify and/or develop new cultivars with superior alleles that can better adapt to the upcoming challenges will be encouraged. Contributions highlighting the usefulness of -omics approaches to discover desirable alleles for complex traits for sustainable agriculture are welcome. We welcome submissions from all authors, irrespective of gender.
Dr. Francesca Taranto
Guest Editor
Women’s Special Issue Series
This Special Issue is part of Agronomy's Women’s Special Issue Series, hosted by women editors for women researchers. The Series advocates the advancement of women in science. We invite contributions to the Special Issue whose lead authors identify as women. The submission of articles with all-women authorship is especially encouraged. However, we do welcome articles from all authors, irrespective of gender.
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Keywords
- crops
- genetic resources
- yield
- quality
- biotic and abiotic stresses
- plant adaptation
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