Variety Breeding and Cultivation Techniques of Stone Fruit Trees

Dear Colleagues,

The productivity and quality of stone fruit trees (peach, plum, apricot, cherry, olive, etc.) can be dramatically reduced by climate change. Improving the performance of cultivars in limited resources and new cultivation approaches may both be required for resolving these issues global stone fruit tree production. New biological technologies such as next-generation sequencing, high-throughput phenomics and high-throughput genotyping can be used in breeding programs for accelerating the development of new or improved cultivars. Phenomics may predict complex traits such as abiotic stresses, and genomics can be an approach used in gene discovery for traits of interest and development of molecular markers. In addition, these high-throughput technologies can be used for plant selection in breeding programs. This Topic aims to promote research on the improvements in stone fruit tree cultivars using selection methods such as marker-assisted selection, genomics, and phenomics, and new cultivar-matched cultivation techniques and strategies are themes to be explored. In this Topic, we encourage the submission of original research papers or reviews on the development of cultivars and the relationships between phenotype and genotype using a new plant science approaches. Obviously, papers relating to cultivar-matched cultivation techniques and strategies to improve the yield, quality, and abiotic stresses in stone fruit trees are also welcome.

Prof. Dr. Dongliang Qiu
Dr. Cuilan Ma
Dr. Tengfei Pan
Guest Editors

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