Maize Functional Genomics

Dear Colleagues,

Maize, as one of the most important crops in the world, has high economic benefits and a large production potential in food and feed production, as well as in various industrial utilizations. Maize has a large-size genome and high genetic variations in populations. In recent years, with the rapid developments of bioinformatic tools and biotechnology, many high-resolution genomic sequences and a considerable number of multi-omics data of maize inbreeding lines and its wild relatives have become available, which could significantly facilitate the maize functional genomic studies and further promote maize breeding and genetic applications in agronomy.

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide updated views and advances in the field of functional studies of maize genes and genetic variations with the aid of a genomics-based approach. This Special Issue welcomes research papers and reviews covering a wide range of topics related to maize functional genomics, including gene cloning and discovery, genome-wide association studies, gene family studies, comparative genomics studies, integrative omics studies, omics-based functional studies, software tools and databases facilitating functional genomic analyses, and application of genomic data and bioinformatics to maize breeding and improvement.

Dr. Ziwen Li
Guest Editor

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